Windows 10: Windows making a mess on my non-boot drives!

Discus and support Windows making a mess on my non-boot drives! in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Windows suddenly started creating un-deletable Program Files and WindowsApps folders on my meticulously sorted and maintained non-boot drives. There's... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/MadMinstrel, Dec 4, 2020.

  1. /U/MADMINSTREL
    /u/MadMinstrel Win User

    Windows making a mess on my non-boot drives!


    Windows suddenly started creating un-deletable Program Files and WindowsApps folders on my meticulously sorted and maintained non-boot drives. There's nothing in there as far as I can tell, but it's absolutely driving me up the wall! I can't even make them Hidden! How do make Windows clean this crap off my drives and force it to keep it that way once and for all?

    Help me Reddit, you're my only hope!

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    /u/MadMinstrel, Dec 4, 2020
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  2. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Dec 4, 2020
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  3. LITTLE CAT
    little cat Win User
    little cat, Dec 4, 2020
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  4. DANDEL
    Dandel Win User

    Windows making a mess on my non-boot drives!

    How to go about building a tri-boot system?

    i dual boot all the time, and going in to tri boot is easy.

    step 1) partition the drive in to 3 partitions ( leaving 1 empty for the linux installer. )
    step 2) install windows on the first 2 partitions.
    step 3) install linux, and let it auto partition the remaining space. ( i recommend at least 30gb of space for linux, because it will make things a lot easier. )

    step 4) enjoy.
     
    Dandel, Dec 4, 2020
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