strange volume listed by disk defrag

Today when going into Disk Defrag, within windows 8.1, I see listed as the last disk a strange volume with now disk drive assigned. It has a lot of letters and numbers after it. It does not show up anywhere else on the computer. I have defrag many times before and this was not listed. No changes have been made to the computer except for the Windows 8.1 update. Any idea what this is and how to get rid of it in disk defrag. Oh, it also indicates that it is 25% fragmented but when you click to defrag, or whatever its called now in windows 8.1, it does nothing. All the other drives defrag correctly.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance

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A. User

Hi,

This drive could be a recovery partition drive for the operating system on the computer.

To verify the issue better, let’s check if there are any unassigned drive under Disk Management. Follow the steps:

a) Press Windows and R key together and type “diskmagmt.msc”. Hit Enter.

b) Check if there are drive partition with unassigned drive letter.

Again, if there are any external devices/drives connected to the computer, disconnect them and check if it shows up.

To get a better picture of the issue, I would suggest you to post a screenshot of the window under Disk Defragmenter showing the drive. Follow the steps:

a) First of all, take a screen shot of the issue and save it to location on the computer.

b) Now, click on Add image on the answer website.

c) Browse to the location and click on Upload Image.

Please get back to us with the required information in order to troubleshoot the issue further.

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Hi,

These drives are related to the Windows recovery partitions (OEM). You don't have to worry about it and can leave the drive alone. It's better to have them rather then going ahead and reinstalling Windows to clean these partitions are preinstalled.

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