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Weird drive showing up in defragmentation menu

ninjakarlsej

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Oct 31, 2013
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Hi all!

So, I was going to defrag my Harddrive when i noticed a weird 3rd drive. I'm guessing it's my DVD drive(?) but I have no idea if it's anything remotely dangerous so that's why I'm asking you guys, does anyone know what it is?

Link to a picture of the drive's name: http://i.imgur.com/NlxqN4L.png

- Ninjakarlsej
 
I'm not sure what that drive is.... but I suggest you don't mess around with it!

Windows 7 and later do the defrag automatically when the computer is idle, so unless you are running other os, you don't need to do it.
 
It's either the system reserved space(windows) or a recovery partition. Windows will handle the maintenance if anything needs to be optimized.