what's using my drive?

WARburton · 24 Mar 2025 at 15:29

im planning on removing a 500gb ssd that i dont use to put in an ITX build but ever time i format the drive windows dump some empty folders in it.
i dont want to remove the drive and the system not work as its a pain to get to that slot.

i have everything pointing to my C drive but windows still adds this ever time

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Mcnumpty2323 · 24 Mar 2025 at 15:31

If its a sata ssd
See if your bios can disable that sata port
And see if something stops working

henson0115 · 24 Mar 2025 at 15:34

if its windows 11 you have an option somewhere in the apps system settings to choose where to install things, like games etc. it sounds like in the past you may have set the options to use the d drive(whatever the drive is labelled) and on reformat its adhering to this; if you open up settings then go to apps, try to find the default install location and change it back to c drive. this should take care of it.

WARburton · 24 Mar 2025 at 16:02

Mcnumpty2323 said:
If its a sata ssd
See if your bios can disable that sata port
And see if something stops working

its m.2

henson0115 said:
if its windows 11 you have an option somewhere in the apps system settings to choose where to install things, like games etc. it sounds like in the past you may have set the options to use the d drive(whatever the drive is labelled) and on reformat its adhering to this; if you open up settings then go to apps, try to find the default install location and change it back to c drive. this should take care of it.

this gave me a good idea and i just deleted the volume in disk management.
boot cycled it and all it working well, im sure one day i will run into a problem but its working so all is good

Mcnumpty2323 · 24 Mar 2025 at 16:07

That's one thing I hate about m2
Can't just disable in the bios
Especially as removing them isn't always easy
At least unless newer boards than my x570 can do it
Got 5 of them disabling individual drives
In the bios when I am messing around with stuff
I shouldn't would be very useful

adrichardson81 · 25 Mar 2025 at 20:51

Any reason why you don't want to use it? 500gb is big enough to be useful.

WARburton · 25 Mar 2025 at 21:40

adrichardson81 said:
Any reason why you don't want to use it? 500gb is big enough to be useful.

Sticking a little itx system together. The drive is sitting in a system with a 2tb drive that as 1100gb free so I thought why buy a new drive just reuse this one