if runtime.GOOS == globalWindowsOSName {
			if filepath.VolumeName(u.Path[1:]) != "" {
				u.Path = u.Path[1:]
			}
		}

	} else {
		// Only check if the arg is an ip address and ask for scheme since its absent.
		// localhost, example.com, any FQDN cannot be disambiguated from a regular file path such as
		// /mnt/export1. So we go ahead and start the minio server in FS modes in these cases.