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Hidden Partitions are Displayed by the Windows Disk Defragmenter Tool


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Symptoms

In Microsoft Windows, you can change the behavior of the Disk Defragmenter tool, and select the disk (partition) that you want to defragment.After installing Windows, when you display the list of disks for defragmentation from [Select volume] in the Disk Defragmenter tool, hidden partitions that are not mounted are also displayed. Hidden partition volumes are displayed with the following name:

\\?\Volume{Number String}

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Workaround

There is no problem when disk defragmentation is performed for volumes named "\\?\Volume{Number String}".

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Status

This behavior is by design.

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Properties

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Article Info
Article ID : 952910
Revision : 1
Created on : 12/3/2014
Published on : 12/3/2014
Exists online : False
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