D:\ (folder)

[Muffler]

Somehow, while trying to reroute my personal data to a second hard drive, I managed to make a folder called D:\  . It is up there with Desktop, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos, and it will not delete. Tried disk management, and that doesn't show it. How would I delete this folder.

[Geek-9pm]

Leave it alone.
Wait until somebody here understands your problem.
The expression
  D:\
in Windows refers to a partition, not a folder. Do not delete it.

Why do you think it is a folder?

[Muffler]

I built it. I was trying to make a folder to put my data on a second drive, and it wanted a name or location, or something. When I get tired, I have a tendency to do stupid things. I wanted the folder to be on the D drive, so I gave it that name as where to send the files. I was looking at my computer file explorer, and up at the top it was there with the other folders like documents, pictures and such. It does not show up in disk management. It will not delete. It shows to be 1.81 TB free with 279 MB used. There is nothing on the D drive yet, but I somehow got it to having 3 partitions that I can not get rid of. and they are all empty. I gave up and tried to get DBAN to just clean the drive, but never could get the boot menu to do what I set it to.  All I am trying to do is get my SSD to be set up so that I can easily reinstall it if necessary, and put my data on the D drive. I have read forum posts across the internet, and learned how to fix a lot of stuff, but this is something I never would have thought could happen.  I suppose that if there is a way to delete the pictures folder, that would be the way to delete this D folder, but I could not find it.

[jason2074]

Did you happen to have mapped or mounted the folder? http://www.lostintechnology.com/how-to/how-to-map-a-network-drive-or-folder/ or http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49321-map-network-drive-shortcut-create.html

[Muffler]

It is not mapped. It is not shared. It is just listed up there as a folder, and now the actual D drive has disappeared from the list of drives. Not sure how I did that.
They say that everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. I believe that I just rose to mine.

[patio]

Try opening a downsized My Computer window and drag and drop D:\ into it...

[Muffler]

I tried dragging it. I will not drag.

[patio]

Try rite clik/send to then...

[Muffler]

right click gives copy, create shortcut, or properties. Properties not available when clicked on.

[patio]

How exactly did you create this Folder ? ?

[Muffler]

I was trying to make a folder on my D drive to put all my documents, pictures and such into. Somewhere along the way, it wanted a name, and I thought it was looking for a name of the location I wanted to put it. I put in D and the rest is history.

Now I have a D drive that is so partitioned up that I doubt it will do much good, if I ever get the D folder to go away.

[SuperDave]

Are you certain that it's a folder? What is in it? What happens when you try to delete it? If it is indeed a folder you should be able to delete it with Unlocker.

You can download and install Unlocker .Make sure you decline each of those free offers so they won't get loaded on your computer.

[Muffler]

I say that it is a folder, because it is listed as a folder up at the top of the explorer, along with pictures, videos and such. There is nothing in it. I was going to look, but I am on the other computer. I am 10 hrs into nuking the d drive that I could not unformat.

if I delete the folder, and it is the actual D drive, but D drive is wiped clean, I should be able to just assign a new D to the drive when I add it back, right?

Anyway, can't do anything with that machine until I finish nuking the d drive. I have the main ssd unplugged so it would not get wiped clean. I'll check back later. Thanks.

[patio]

I'm totally confused now....
Why do you need to nuke the D: drive ? ?
What's on the SSD ? ?
Where is C:? another drive...or partition ? ?

[Muffler]

I may have added a few unassociated details. I wanted an SSD as my operating system drive. I cloned everything from my 2 TB internal drive, which I had pretty much set up like I wanted. I wanted to move the data files to the 2 TB drive that I had left over. Somewhere along the way, I made the D folder and then, in an altogether different problem, I could not get 4 partitions off the 2TB drive. That was a whole nother problem. I had to end up Nuking that drive to get it back to a single partition. (which it is now).  I still have the D folder showing up on the explorer, right in front of the "Desktop", "Downloads", "Music", "Pictures", and "Videos". I call it a folder, because it says " Folders (6)" just before the list of the above items.  Just below that is the bar showing the "Windows C": drive, and now, the "Data Drive D" that I just installed, and the "DVD RW Drive E"

I hope that I have not further complicated the situation. Right now, all I really need to do is get rid of the "D" folder.

[Muffler]

Now that I got the new drive running, and named it D. I added one folder to it, with my name on it. Clicking the problem "folder" takes me to my D drive, and if I try to restore it to it's previous location, it gives me an error. Right now. If I delete it, nothing will happen, because I can just go back and re install my second drive as D. But It won't uninstall. Well, I still need to try the uninstall program that was mentioned earlier.

[Muffler]

Downloaded and fought of my antivirus not wanting me to download the Unlocker. Only downloaded it because I saw CNET and trust them. I saw no option to use it for one particular item, and so, being willing to just start everything from scratch, if absolutely necessary, I just let it do everything it wanted to do. That File is still there. I do have to log into everything that I was previously logged into again, though.

[Geek-9pm]

Only downloaded it because I saw CNET and trust them.

[Muffler]

You don't trust CNET? If I had anything on this computer other than the basic programs, and some I added, I would not be downloading willy nilly, but what have I got to loose at this point? A few more hours of tweeking, maybe.

[Muffler]

in the explorer, on the left column, right under "This PC" is listed D:\.

[Muffler]

I changed the drive letter of the disk to x, and broke the link. It was still there and when I changed it back to D, it works again. It is definately a link to the D data drive, but it is sure in a confusing location.

[Geek-9pm]

It may help if you can get a screenshot
Crop and save it as a good JPG. Place it you next post  as an attachment.
That way others can see what  you see.
Here is one way to make a screenshot in Windows 8
Snipping Tool to capture screen shots

[Muffler]

This is it. If it posts.

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]

[BC_Programmer]

I think a screenshot would be worth 1000 words here. I think I know what you are saying but there could also be other details shown in an image that you don't think are significant.

Based on what you've said, it sounds to me like this item is appearing within your "Libraries" folder? Does it (or rather, did it- soulds like you've sinced wiped the drive) look similar to what I've managed to recreate in this image? (in this case I used a Drive G:)



If it is similar to that than you managed to add the drive to one of the libraries. It would also be consistent with what you mentioned in some later replies.

[Muffler]

I have found placed on the web that show how to use the registry edit, to remove those folders, but they give a list of the ones that everyone has, and I have all of those but no others, so that was a dead end. I think I will just give up and reinstall the system. I have spent more time trying to save time, than it is worth. Thank for all your help.