System Files Scattered on Different Drives Problem


  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #1

    System Files Scattered on Different Drives Problem


    With view hidden/system/suffix the system/boot files that are available at the drive where Windows 7 is installed is DebugTraceAP.log hiberfil.sys (not sure if this is for Windows) and pagefile.sys. The rest of the non-folder Windows System files are scattered throughout my other drives.

    AUTOEXEC.BAT, boot.ini, bootmgr, CONFIG.SYS, IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, NTDETECT.COM, ntldr are located at drive D. Last time I tested before I formatted yesterday due to forcefully deleting the system files in my other drives, there were 3 drives that cannot be removed even though these drives don't have any programs in them just some of my archives.

    Is there a way for Windows 7 to only use the installed Windows drive for all the system files?
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    What do you mean, can not be removed ? Just unplug them and reinstall windows.
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    The "cannot be removed" is not the point.

    I just don't want Windows 7 to scatter the bootmgr and the other files on different drives since I sometimes need to place my archive drives on different computers.

    On my 6 internal drives, I can't remove 3 of them since Windows 7 places boot-required files on my other drives. Btw. I only place Windows on drive C: like everybody else.
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  4. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #4

    Nearly all of those things you listed are stuff Windows 7 DOES NOT USE. The .SYS files and .COM files are old relics from old Windows installations that are not even used in Windows 7 or let alone created. Also Windows would not scatter its system files around but on the drive it is installed. So something is quite odd about your configuration.
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    These are the "system files" and folders that I see in the drives except for C:\(where the Windows folder resides):

    Drive D:
    "Boot" folder
    AUTOEXEC.BAT
    boot.ini
    bootmgr
    CONFIG.SYS
    IOS.SYS
    MSDOS.SYS
    NTDETECT.COM
    ntldr

    Drive H:
    "RECYCLER" folder (not $RECYCLE.BIN but it's also there)

    Drive J:

    "Boot" folder
    "RECYCLER" folder (not $RECYCLE.BIN but it's also there)
    bootmgr
    BOOTSECT.BAK
    win7.Id
    YBTXW

    At "Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management":

    -Drive J is listed as Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition) which is not a partition
    -Drive H is listed as Healthy (Logical Drive) which I guess is ok since it's a partition of Drive C:

    I just want to remove the dependency of Windows on Drive J:. I can't remove the drive because Windows 7 won't boot.
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