Million files listed - but no such drive!

[terrypin]

If I type 'm:' as my search I get a list of close to a million files listed. But I have no M: drive. It doesn't appear in File Explore or Disk Management. Or in my alternative search tool Agent Ransack.

In Tools > Options > Indexes > NTFS I'm surprised to find it in the drop-down list as Offline Disk (M:).

What is it and how can it have been created? Could it perhaps be something to do with a recent Macrium Reflect automatic update?

More important, assuming it's redundant, how do I delete it, as it's obviously it's occupying a chunk of RAM somewhere.

[void]

To remove an offline NTFS volume:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click NTFS on the left.
• Select your M: drive and click Remove.
• Click OK.

To make Everything automatically remove offline NTFS volumes:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click NTFS on the left.
• Check Automatically remove offline volumes.
• Click OK.

To prevent Everything from indexing any more new NTFS volumes:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click NTFS on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically include new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes.
• Click OK.

[terrypin]

Thanks, understood.

Do you reckon the most likely cause was that there was once a drive called M (not created by me) traces of which are still somehow hanging around in Win 10 Pro?

[therube]

Well, is it a feature of Macrium Reflect to be able to create a "drive", be it "virtual" or otherwise (that is seen as a NTFS drive to Windows)?
If so, & if it were created, then Everything may very well have indexed it & simply retained that data even though that drive has since been "disconnected".
And if it were Macrium, & if you put Macrium on your computer, then it was you "who created it" .


PS: Traces of the drive need not (necessarily) be "hanging around", but (history of) its existence could still be in Everything's database (& so "seen" by Everything).