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Question : Mounted Drive (Supposedly) taking up all my Hard Drive space, how do I remove?
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Hello,
I have a folder under root C that is named D. When I right click on it and open properties it shows under the general tab that it has a type of "Mounted Volume" , and if I then click properties under the general tab it says it has a type of "RAM Disk". This mounted volume contains a copy of all of my files on C drive minus the mounted volume although it does have a folder called D that is empty in it. The result of this is nearly all of my hard drive space is taken up because essentially all of my files are duplicated. All the files in the Mounted Volume are write protected so I cannot do anything with them (probably because VISTA sees it as a RAM Disk). Changes to the files on my C drive do not affect the files in the mounted drive so they are copies of my files from a specific period in time.
I deleted the mounted volume by simply selecting it under root C and pressing the delete key which placed it in the recycle bin, I then emptied my recycle bin which brought my computer to a halt so I did a hard reboot. When it came back up my the mounted volume was back but this time with a name of C with a new created time, and the files were a more current duplication of files on my hard drive. The files in D were older, some files I had deleted on C drive were still in D, those files were now gone.
I did go to Disk Management to check my Mounted Volumes and it was NOT listed there.
Hopefully this is just something I inadverently enabled on Vista that I can disable, and not a virus.
Please any help would be appreciated I only have a few gigs of space left on my computer because of this.
OS:
Vista 64-bit Business SP1
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Answer : Mounted Drive (Supposedly) taking up all my Hard Drive space, how do I remove?
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