2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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Biff
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2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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I plugged in a drive with the letter E:, Everything scanned it, I changed the letter to A: and Everythings scanned A:. I plugged off the drive. Now Everything shows 2 E: drives:

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How could I without plugging in drive A: or the real drive E: find out which E: drive (now A:) in the NTFS tab can be deleted? And when I remove the E: drive (formerly A:) in the tab will the index of the original, existing drive E: be kept?
void
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Re: 2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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Not easily sorry.

You can use fsi: to identify and remove the index.
Biff
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Re: 2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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Thank you very much!

The last time I tried it this way anything went wrong. All of the indexes of all the E: drives were gone.

So, fsi:3 (the fourth index) does not show anything, this must be the drive not being existing anymore with the letter E: which now is A:. If I remove this index the other E: index (another drive) should be kept, shouldn't it?
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fsi:0 shows A:.

Why is the none existing E: (which has chaned to A:) kept although it is not available anymore? Could one avoid it?
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Re: 2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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If I remove this index the other E: index (another drive) should be kept, shouldn't it?
Yes, if you remove the 4th index the other indexes will be kept, even if they are offline.
Why is the non existing E: (which has chaned to A:) kept although it is not available anymore? Could one avoid it?
It is possible the volume GUID changed with the drive letter change.
Not much can be done about that as Windows sees the volume as a completely new volume.

The auto_remove_moved_ntfs_volumes ini setting should be set to 1 to automatically remove moved NTFS volumes. It should be 1 by default, so unless you've changed this to 0 Everything should automatically remove the offline volume, even when automatically remove offline volumes is disabled.
Biff
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Re: 2 drives with letter E: - remove one of them?

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Many thanks!
The auto_remove_moved_ntfs_volumes ini setting should be set to 1 to automatically remove moved NTFS volumes
Yes, it is set like that, I haven't changed anything:
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Alright, I just removed the second E: (now A:) index on a second Everythings, it appears all went well

many thanks again
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