diff --git a/src/path/filepath/path_test.go b/src/path/filepath/path_test.go
index 0a2286648f..3077ffb6c7 100644
--- a/src/path/filepath/path_test.go
+++ b/src/path/filepath/path_test.go
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ var wincleantests = []PathTest{
 	{`//abc`, `\\abc`},
 	{`///abc`, `\\\abc`},
 	{`//abc//`, `\\abc\\`},
+	{`\\?\C:\`, `\\?\C:\`},
+	{`\\?\C:\a`, `\\?\C:\a`},
 
 	// Don't allow cleaning to move an element with a colon to the start of the path.
 	{`a/../c:`, `.\c:`},
@@ -1472,10 +1474,13 @@ var volumenametests = []VolumeNameTest{
 	{`//.`, `\\.`},
 	{`//./`, `\\.\`},
 	{`//./NUL`, `\\.\NUL`},
-	{`//?/`, `\\?`},
+	{`//?`, `\\?`},
+	{`//?/`, `\\?\`},
+	{`//?/NUL`, `\\?\NUL`},
+	{`/??`, `\??`},
+	{`/??/`, `\??\`},
+	{`/??/NUL`, `\??\NUL`},
 	{`//./a/b`, `\\.\a`},
-	{`//?/`, `\\?`},
-	{`//?/`, `\\?`},
 	{`//./C:`, `\\.\C:`},
 	{`//./C:/`, `\\.\C:`},
 	{`//./C:/a/b/c`, `\\.\C:`},
@@ -1484,8 +1489,8 @@ var volumenametests = []VolumeNameTest{
 	{`//./UNC/host\`, `\\.\UNC\host\`},
 	{`//./UNC`, `\\.\UNC`},
 	{`//./UNC/`, `\\.\UNC\`},
-	{`\\?\x`, `\\?`},
-	{`\??\x`, `\??`},
+	{`\\?\x`, `\\?\x`},
+	{`\??\x`, `\??\x`},
 }
 
 func TestVolumeName(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/src/path/filepath/path_windows.go b/src/path/filepath/path_windows.go
index c490424f20..eacab0e5ce 100644
--- a/src/path/filepath/path_windows.go
+++ b/src/path/filepath/path_windows.go
@@ -102,12 +102,14 @@ func volumeNameLen(path string) int {
 		// \\.\unc\a\b\..\c into \\.\unc\a\c.
 		return uncLen(path, len(`\\.\UNC\`))
 
-	case pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\\.`):
-		// Path starts with \\., and is a Local Device path.
+	case pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\\.`) ||
+		pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\\?`) || pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\??`):
+		// Path starts with \\.\, and is a Local Device path; or
+		// path starts with \\?\ or \??\ and is a Root Local Device path.
 		//
-		// We currently treat the next component after the \\.\ prefix
-		// as part of the volume name, although there doesn't seem to be
-		// a principled reason to do this.
+		// We treat the next component after the \\.\ prefix as
+		// part of the volume name, which means Clean(`\\?\c:\`)
+		// won't remove the trailing \. (See #64028.)
 		if len(path) == 3 {
 			return 3 // exactly \\.
 		}
@@ -117,14 +119,6 @@ func volumeNameLen(path string) int {
 		}
 		return len(path) - len(rest) - 1
 
-	case pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\\?`) || pathHasPrefixFold(path, `\??`):
-		// Path starts with \\?\ or \??\, and is a Root Local Device path.
-		//
-		// While Windows usually treats / and \ as equivalent,
-		// /??/ does not seem to be recognized as a Root Local Device path.
-		// We treat it as one anyway here to be safe.
-		return 3
-
 	case len(path) >= 2 && isSlash(path[1]):
 		// Path starts with \\, and is a UNC path.
 		return uncLen(path, 2)