How do I seperate my hard drives to act as seperate drives again ?

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  1. Posts : 12,012
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       #11

    I'm not positive because I don't know much about EFI systems, but I think you are OK.

    Disk 1 appears to be the system drive and is also where C is. That should be OK.

    What's on D? It has about 12 GB space used.

    What's F? A USB flash drive? Not sure why it's marked "active".

    Disconnect or remove all drives (internal, external, USB, whatever) other than disc 1--the 240 GB drive. Does the PC still boot with only the 240 connected?
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  2. Posts : 25
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       #12

    The space took up on D is from installs I've put on there, it was empty after I reinstalled windows.

    Yeah F was just a flash drive.

    If I disable the drive here that would be suffice to then test if the PC boots off the 240gb drive yeah ?
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  3. whs
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       #13

    I don't think that's going to work. Why don't you just disconnect e.g. the power of the drive.
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  4. Posts : 13,576
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       #14

    Offline for an hour, must be having technical difficulties
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  5. Posts : 2,774
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #15

    If I understood correctly, I believe one can disable the 2nd physical hard-drive in Device Manager and restart; Windows should no longer see or use that disabled hard-drive; however, any externally booted dvd or usb with any sort of "looksee" can access the Windows' Device Manager-disabled hard-drive.
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       #16

    AddRAM said:
    Offline for an hour, must be having technical difficulties
    Hahaha :)

    I haven't broke it ye lol.

    Been busy with some other things I had to sort, appreciate everyones help tyvm, will be back in couple hours to attempt to resolve this.
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  7. Posts : 25
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       #17

    RolandJS said:
    If I understood correctly, I believe one can disable the 2nd physical hard-drive in Device Manager and restart; Windows should no longer see or use that disabled hard-drive; however, any externally booted dvd or usb with any sort of "looksee" can access the Windows' Device Manager-disabled hard-drive.
    So I can click to disable it like I showed in the pic above and that would do the trick or I need to do it whs' way ?
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  8. Posts : 1,670
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       #18

    I would do what WHS said. only takes a minute or so to do.
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  9. Posts : 25
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       #19

    oscer1 said:
    I would do what WHS said. only takes a minute or so to do.
    Yeah it was just I wasn't too keen on touching anything inside the tower since, as I've made very clear itt, I'm a noob with all this stuff :)

    But I was brave and did it the way whs said and the OS loaded up fine so that's everything solved I believe, for now lol.

    Thanks again for all your help everyone, really great site, tyty.
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
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       #20

    Very good and I am glad you learned something on the way.
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