System Files Scattered on Different Drives Problem

[Unregistered00]

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?

 

[AddRAM]

What do you mean, can not be removed ? Just unplug them and reinstall windows.

 

[Unregistered00]

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.

 

[logicearth]

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.

 

[Unregistered00]

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.