Thanks for the reply mate.
Ok I've attached a screenshot of windows explorer. The C drive is my SSD. The Local disk D drive is my big storage hdd drive, and the mystery local disk Z is this odd drive.
I have noticed 2 things. The Z drive is FAT32, while the others are NTFS. Also when I go to settings, then storage, only drives C and D appear. This Z drive doesn't appear.
It had appeared and disappeared when I've noticed it in the past. That's why I thought it was registering a usb device as a local disk. But then on a re-boot it would disappear. Now for some reason its remaining on the system after a reboot. Kinda odd.
I've done virus checks and nothing as come up.
Ok I just checked in disk management and it has 4 things listed in the top window. 2 of them dont have a drive letter.. so it lists them as
Quote:Volume Layout Type File System Status Capacity
Simple Basic Healthy (Recovery Partition) 450MB
Simple Basic Healthy (EFI System Partition) 99MB
C Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 232.33 GB
D Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition) 2794.52 GB
So the this local disk Z seems to be the 99MB entry. Not sure why its appearing though in the list. I'll try and add another image of the disk management in the next post. Hoping the attachment attaches ok on this one
Ok I'm attaching the disk management screen picture too.
I'm wondering if this is something to do with me updating the network printer drivers.
I just searched local disk appearing with google and some HP forum pages appeared with other people having the same local disk showing up.
I'm not sure why this should local disk should be appearing after installing the updated drivers for the printer. One guy here:
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/What-the-Local-Disk-Z/td-p/5562838 said;
Quote:When I scan the drive What I find is Z:\EFI\Microsoft\ and Z:\EFI\HP\ folders with I think are boot\system files. one of the file I was able to catch was: Z:\EFI\HP\SystemDiags\SystemDiags.s12.
I notice that drive Z: Around the time I was trying to install a new HP Envy 5540 printer.
Seems very odd why this would happen. But yea I did update the drivers as my old printer broke so I bought the same model and had to tell hp to find it.