Windows 10: When reinstalling should I disconnect all drives except for the one I want to install on

I was watching a video on how to reinstall windows and the tutorial got to the part about partitions and I was wondering if I should just remove all drives except for my C drive to make sure that I can delete partitions without accidentally deleting something important?

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Wondering about a second hard drive and installing Vista on it and also a ..

Annoying having to go into the bios each time though. And for me not a option unless i run 2 arrays.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?

 

Win 10 disconnects external drives at random

After reading the article carefully, I started with the simple steps first.

1. Disabling MS One Drive was not necessary because I disable it right away when the machine was out of the box.

2. Turning off Fast Startup did not help. The drive was recognized upon Restart but then lost in about an hour.

Following other suggestions in the article was not successful.

For example, their step 3 reads: “Wait for the list of installed apps to appear. When the list appears, locate Seagate software and click the Uninstall button.”

However, there are no apps on my computer that are named Seagate whatever.

Likewise, I could not reinstall Paragon drivers because I could not find them on my computer in the first place.

I left a comment on the web page but have no idea if anybody will read it.

Studying Seagate website, found this page: Will my Seagate drive work with Windows 10? | Seagate Support US
according to which, my drive should work.

My N: drive is from the “Backup Plus Family”. It points to an “HFS driver 9.1 or higher”.
Dell’s Device manager lists MS Diver version 10.0.17763.1, dated 6/21/2006 as the most current driver for this drive.

Should I download the HFS driver, and then go to “Update Driver” > Locate and install driver s/w manually ?

If yes, where (which folder) should the HFS driver be placed properly for Windows to see it?

Thank you!