Unable to remove hard drive

marlowian · September 11, 2021

When I was building my Pc awhile back I put in an old hard drive that didn't have anything on it that I had gotten from school. Not too long ago my MOBO fried and I had to replace it, when I was setting everything back up I decided that I would just take out that drive since its not that big and its empty, although when I tried to boot after that I couldn't anymore. after a little bit I realized the for some reason my Pc needed that drive to boot Even though it isn't even the boot drive. I've tried to reformat it, I've gone into device manager and tried to uninstall it, I've gone into disk management to try to remove the partition from the drive and the delete option is greyed out. and a few other things. My Pc runs fine with the drive in but I'm afraid since its an old drive and probably been through it that it will fail and I wont be able to boot anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this or why its essential for my boot up?

Specs: Windows 10 home 64 bit vr.10.0.190.41, Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb corsair vengeance pro ram, rx 5600xt, corsair cx750m power supply, 4tb WD hard drive, 250gb Samsung ssd, 160gb seagate Hard drive(problem drive)

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