Long story made short: some time ago I upgraded a tired old AMD system by changing some components (ram, gpu, hd,etc.
I installed a Samsung SSD as drive C: by migrating the system from the 2TB HD that came in the system. The HD was assigned E: Now, months later I'd like to wipe that HD. It still has all the files that were migrated.
The data I have backed up but my concern is if I disappear the system files I might cause problems. When I did the migration I turned off the machine, unplugged the E: drive and restarted without problems. I probably should have dealt with the spinner then but left it in operation as storage. Can I disconnect it noe without causing problems?
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.9
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 18363, Installed 20190930080947.000000-480
Processor: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G, AMD64 Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1, CPU Count: 4
Total Physical RAM: 16 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Hard Drives: C: 417 GB (276 GB Free); E: 1831 GB (1608 GB Free);
Motherboard: LENOVO Bantry CRB, ver SDK0J40709 WIN, s/n R302BZKN
System: LENOVO, ver LENOVO - 1380, s/n R302BZKN
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled
STARTUP DEVICES
SATA 1:Samsung SSD (Windows boot manager) Boot disk
SATA 4: Seagate 2T (Windows boot manager)
Startup boot mode UEFI
Thanks for your kind advice!
I installed a Samsung SSD as drive C: by migrating the system from the 2TB HD that came in the system. The HD was assigned E: Now, months later I'd like to wipe that HD. It still has all the files that were migrated.
The data I have backed up but my concern is if I disappear the system files I might cause problems. When I did the migration I turned off the machine, unplugged the E: drive and restarted without problems. I probably should have dealt with the spinner then but left it in operation as storage. Can I disconnect it noe without causing problems?
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.9
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 18363, Installed 20190930080947.000000-480
Processor: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G, AMD64 Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1, CPU Count: 4
Total Physical RAM: 16 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Hard Drives: C: 417 GB (276 GB Free); E: 1831 GB (1608 GB Free);
Motherboard: LENOVO Bantry CRB, ver SDK0J40709 WIN, s/n R302BZKN
System: LENOVO, ver LENOVO - 1380, s/n R302BZKN
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled
STARTUP DEVICES
SATA 1:Samsung SSD (Windows boot manager) Boot disk
SATA 4: Seagate 2T (Windows boot manager)
Startup boot mode UEFI
Thanks for your kind advice!