Also, it is not advisable to eject the virtual drive as doing so may cause issues. Google has said that Google Drive for Desktop requires a virtual mounted drive to work. This “feature” is pretty useless for me and just clutters up explorer.Īs per a Google Support community Product Expert, the tech giant has shed some light on the virtual drive feature.

How can I completely prevent the new Google Drive app from mounting the Google Drive folder as a virtual drive? As in, stop it from mounting to any drive letter. Why did it created it? can I remove it, or is it taking some of my space? It Creates a new drive name Google Drive Z. I finally upgraded my backup and sync tool by downloading the google drive for windows. While there are several ways to disable or hide drives in Windows, there’s currently no official way to disable Google Drive from mounting virtual drive. This further means that users are looking for a way to stop Google Drive from mounting a virtual drive in the Windows file explorer.

However, users are not liking this feature and want to disable the drive letter for Google Drive for Desktop. Google Drive for Desktop is used by many on Windows machines and it received a feature for mounting virtual drive some time ago.īasically, Google Drive for Desktop mounts a virtual drive in the Windows file explorer and assigns a letter to it like other logical, virtual, or physical drives. Original story (published on September 04, 2021) follows: New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

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