Remove drive created with "subst" command?

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One of my hard drives broke a few days ago and I tried to use the subst command to fix some problems. The subst command didn't work when I used it, instead it only worked after a restart. So now I suddenly have a new (virtual) hard driver which is assigned to the first partition of my OS hard drive.


Quick info:

I'm using Windows 10 64 bit

The drive D: created with subst is showing up in My Computer and I'm constantly getting messages about it running out of space

OS hard drive is C:

Broken (now gone) hard drive was D:

New subst hard drive (which is on the first of two partitions on C:) is D:

The partition that the "subst D:" drive is on is the OEM partition


The advice I've found so far is to do subst D: /D but that is returning an error "Invalid parameter D:". Restarting my PC again didn't remove it. How do I get rid of this drive letter without accidentally destroying my OS?

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