Someone Please Help!

RacerDemon · Mar 10, 2016

Ok, as you see in the pictures, I have 2 hard-drives installed. 1 of them has windows 10, the other is storage. I had to re install windows 10 and now the storage one doesnt show up under my computer. However is shows up under disk management. I try to format/delete it and I get this error. Why?

dudio · Mar 10, 2016

It's saying it has System files on it that Windows wants.

boju · Mar 10, 2016

I believe the problem is your storage drive which had Win10 on it is still active. Can try this: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-performance/how-do-i-make-a-disk-inactive/47405f70-27f9-48a5-b2b4-03e94707b13e

Another suggestion would be to run Win10 setup again on your storage drive and delete partition this way then exit setup.

There might be a disk management program that can do this but i'd be searching for one tbh.

SuperSoph_WD · Mar 10, 2016

Hey there, RacerDemon!

It seems like you most probably had both HDDs connected to the motherboard when you were installing Windows on the primary drive. Unfortunately, having two drives plugged to the SATA ports at that time causes an OS confusion which makes Windows scatter the system files across all the HDDs. The best way to fix this issue is to start from scratch and reinstall Windows on the primary HDD with the secondary one UNPLUGGED from the mobo.
Once the OS is up and running on the booting HDD, reconnect the secondary drive and try reformatting it through Disk Management again. This time, it should work as long as your boot priority is properly configured in BIOS.
Clean installing/reformatting will erase all the data on those drives, so make sure you have backed up anything that is important from them elsewhere.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

SuperSoph_WD

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