Do you still disconnect other drives when installing windows?

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I've done it this way for years after being unable to get windows to load after upgrading a non boot drive in the past.

I was upgrading my boot drive today and did the same. It's a bit of a nuisance I just wondered is it still necessary?
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Instead of removing a NVME drive and dragged the PC case out from under the desk.
Is there a a way of disabling any secondary drives in the BIOS, so you don't need to physically remove it, and make Windows think there's just a C drive?
I've not looked in my BIOS for about 3 years, so I'm a bit rusty on the subject.

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That's a good question mate
Especially if got 3 X m2 all with heatsink on them
Its a real pita
Can't 100% answer it for you though as too many different motherboards
Can only say the motherboards I have tried no you can't
Disable the nvme drives either en masse
Or individually
Sata 2.5 ssds yes you can

Edit I can't even raid 2 X m2 and have the 3rd as a separate drive
It basically becomes invisible
So definitely not as flexible as sata in some regards
With the bios control
 
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no dont see why you lot take extra steps to disconnect drives. this has not been needed since xp..

1. Have your OS drive be a different total size than all others.

2. when installing windows

you will see:
drive 0: 250GB
drive 1: 1TB
drive 2: 1TB

just use your eyes job done... not exactly rocket science
 
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Instead of removing a NVME drive and dragged the PC case out from under the desk.
Is there a a way of disabling any secondary drives in the BIOS, so you don't need to physically remove it, and make Windows think there's just a C drive?
I've not looked in my BIOS for about 3 years, so I'm a bit rusty on the subject.

Thanks.
Well, AFAIK the problem is that you can indeed disable it in the BIOS but once a full OS is installed it loads the driver for the controller and finds the drive anyhow. That is what used to happen with SATA or PATA anyhow. Unsure if any BIOS can totally turn of a NVMe slot.
 
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@Marzipanogram
That's a good question mate
Especially if got 3 X m2 all with heatsink on them
Its a real pita
Can't 100% answer it for you though as too many different motherboards
Can only say the motherboards I have tried no you can't
Disable the nvme drives either en masse
Or individually
Sata 2.5 ssds yes you can

Edit I can't even raid 2 X m2 and have the 3rd as a separate drive
It basically becomes invisible
So definitely not as flexible as sata in some regards
With the bios control

Well, AFAIK the problem is that you can indeed disable it in the BIOS but once a full OS is installed it loads the driver for the controller and finds the drive anyhow. That is what used to happen with SATA or PATA anyhow. Unsure if any BIOS can totally turn of a NVMe slot.

Thank you both :)
 
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