Windows 10: 2 Drives

I just noticed in File Explorer I have two opticle drives listed. When I click on drive G I get "Please Insert Disk Into Drive". Drive M is my opticle drive with a audio cd inserted. Anyone know why my drive is listed twice.




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Windows Installation With 2 Drives

My PC has an SSD for the boot drive, and it happens to be full, theres also a hard drive with 900 gb free. Will it delete the windows 8 files that are on the ssd and install them there?

 

Windows Installation With 2 Drives

Hi,

Thanks for posting your query to Microsoft forum. I will certainly help you with this.

If you are installing the Windows 10 on another drive you would require a product key to activate the Windows 10.

I would suggest you to try dual boot.

Download Windows 10

Please refer the Microsoft help article below for detailed information:

How to dual boot Windows 10 with previous versions of Windows

Note: I highly recommend backing up all of your important files and folders onto an external storage device before attempting the installation.

Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to help you further.

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Is it the MS Office 'Click to Run' thing?

 

I don't have MS Office so I don't that's causing it.

 

Can you post a screen shot of your disk management screen please.

 

Could it be my card reader? If it is I wonder why it's showing as a cd drive.

 

Is it showing at the bottom of your graphical list?

 

I'll get my camera out tomorrow and try the memory card to see if my card reader is is drive G.

 

Could it be because I installed PowerISO?

 

I betcha that's it! *Smile

 

That 'second' ODD may be part of your WDC My Passport External USB HDD, mine has it along with my WDC NAS HDD. It holds WD SmartWare feature.

 

Thanks everyone! I was in Windows 8.1.1 earlier and saw the same thing in File Explorer only with a different drive letter. I could be wrong but I think it may be PowerISO causing this. I'm marking this thread solved.