When opening Windows File Explorer in Windows 10, you will see duplicate Hard drive or USB drive icons at the navigation tree on the left side.
Especially, when inserting a Removable disk such as a USB flash drive into PC, such a phenomenon occurs.
▼ It shows 1two external hard drive icons in File Explorer as below. Now let’s remove one and show only one drive icon.
![[Windows10] remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer1.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 1")
Starting Registry Editor
▼ First, press keys to open the Run dialog box as shown below. Enter 1regedit in the text field, and click 2 button.
▼ It will show the User Account Control(UAC) window to allow you to open the Registry Editor. Click 1 button.
▼ The Registry Editor window opens. First, navigate to the path below.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders
![[Windows10]remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer2.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 4")
▼ Next, click a sub-key names as {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83} that belongs to DelegateFolders key. By deleting a sub-key will only show only one drive icon in File Explorery.
Backup Registry
▼ Before deleting a sub-key above,it is recommended that you back up the registry key to be safe. After selecting 1DelegateFolders key, click File menu > 2Export… and save it with the proper name.
![[Windows10]remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer3-1.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 5")
▼ Right-click 1{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}, and click 2 button.
![[Windows10]remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer3.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 6")
▼ The Confirm Key Delete window opens as shown below. Click button to delete a sub-key.
![[Windows10]Windows remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer4.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 7")
▼ The Setting is finished. Close the Registry Editor.
![[Windows10]Windows remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer5.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 8")
Check results
▼ Next, confirm Whether it is working properly. When opening Fil Explorer, you will no longer see any duplicate drives. You will see 1only one icon of the hard disk drive that was duplicated.
![[Windows10]Windows remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer6.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 9")
Restore: Import Registry Files
You can restore the original registry using the file(.reg) you backed up above. The deleted Registry sub-key will be added by importing a registry file(.reg) into the Registry Editor.
▼ Click File > 1Import….
![[Windows10] remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer6-1.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 10")
▼ In the Import Registry File dialog box, browse and select a 1Registry file(.reg) you backed up above, and then click 2
![[Windows10]Windows remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer6-1-1.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 11")
▼ Click 1 button.
![[Windows10] remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer6-2.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 12")
▼ As a result, The duplicate drive icon is displayed.
![[Windows10] remove duplicate hard drive](/goods/windows10/images2/two-explorer6-2-1.png "Fix duplicate Hard Drive or USB flash Drive icon in Windows File Explorer 13")