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    I have been forced to make a new install of Windows 10 into a machine with a known dead/malfunctioning secondary drive - will this be problematic?THE HISTORY:I have a machine with three 3 SSD SATA drives, 1 is the boot drive C 500Gb, 2 is a large game file drive D 250Gb, and 3 is a small games drive E 250Gb.Woke up a few days ago to find the third drive E had failed for some unknown reason.Windows Explorer could only identify the E drive as being there by did not have the proper name "Games E" but rather "Local Disk E:"When I clicked on the E drive in Explorer the app would l

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