Question A SSD and a HDD partition as one disk

[IgorBZ]

Hi, yesterday my power went out, and one of my two NVMe stopped work, I tested all of my drives and found the bad one, put the windows on this other NVMe and notice that was really slow to boot, when I opened the disk management my NVMe and my HDD was listed as a single disk (I didn't do raid).
PS: When I try to boot with the NVMe it says there's no windows on this drive, but works when I boot with HDD, but the windows files are in the NVMe.
Does anyone had this problem before? or know how to fix it?

 

[hedwar2011]

Based on the pictures you provided below, it appears like you have two drives installed. One drive being letters C: and H: and the other being drive letter F:. That being said, I have the following questions:
1) When you put Windows on "the other NVMe", which drive are you referring to? Did you transfer content from the bad drive to this one?
2) Did you install a new drive or simply are using the two existing ones?

We need more information about which drives are which to better help you figure out where the issues may be.

 

[IgorBZ]

Based on the pictures you provided below, it appears like you have two drives installed. One drive being letters C: and H: and the other being drive letter F:. That being said, I have the following questions:
1) When you put Windows on "the other NVMe", which drive are you referring to? Did you transfer content from the bad drive to this one?
2) Did you install a new drive or simply are using the two existing ones?

We need more information about which drives are which to better help you figure out where the issues may be.

1) The 1TB NVMe stopped work at all (windows was installed on this one), now I installed windows on the 480GB NVMe.
2) No, one of them don't work anymore (1TB), and the 480GB is working well (besides this problem)
PS: I have other SATAs SSDs plugged in too.

 

[hedwar2011]

The only way it would show up in Disk Management like it does is if when you installed Windows on the 480Gb drive, you inadvertently created the partition on that same SSD which is showing as Drive 0 or Drive C: considering it's full size is 1Tb.

 

[IgorBZ]

The only way it would show up in Disk Management like it does is if when you installed Windows on the 480Gb drive, you inadvertently created the partition on that same SSD which is showing as Drive 0 or Drive C: considering it's full size is 1Tb.

You mean if I created this 1TB HDD (500GB disk H/500GB disk F) partition now? If it is, this 1TB HDD partition is on for about 8 years , it isn't new and already installed windows multiple times before this one and never happened this.
The weird thing is the windows files are on 480GB SSD but it only boot when I put 1TB HDD as primary boot.

 

[hedwar2011]

You mean if I created this 1TB HDD (500GB disk H/500GB disk F) partition now? If it is, this 1TB HDD partition is on for about 8 years , it isn't new and already installed windows multiple times before this one and never happened this.
The weird thing is the windows files are on 480GB SSD but it only boot when I put 1TB HDD as primary boot.

Sounds like it won't boot unless you have the 1Tb HDD as primary because the boot configuration has gotten out of whack as a result of how it reinstalled Windows. You should be able to potentially correct it by running msconfig, clicking on the boot tab and choosing the correct boot option from there.

Somehow, either by mistake or otherwise, that appears to be what has happened is that new 480Gb "drive" (which appears to be letter C is actually just a partition on the actual 1Tb drive as a whole.

I'm not going to lie, it might be worth the time and effort (and headache later), to get you an external drive large enough to hold everything, back it all up, and reinstall Windows clean while setting up your partitions like you want them. You could also do the same when you decide to replace the failed drive (which I would recommend a fresh install at that point anyway) since you are already experiencing the issues you are.

 

[SkyNetRising]

The weird thing is the windows files are on 480GB SSD but it only boot when I put 1TB HDD as primary boot.

Windows files are on 1TB drive.

Can you show full screenshot from Disk Management?
Can you show also screenshot from Device Manager - disk drives section expanded?

 

[IgorBZ]

Windows files are on 1TB drive.

Can you show full screenshot from Disk Management?
Can you show also screenshot from Device Manager - disk drives section expanded?

 

[SkyNetRising]

So basically I'm not too sure what happened since it happened a little while ago but my C: and D: merged together.

No. C: and D : are separate partitions on different drives.

what should I do?

Both SATA SSDs 120GB are almost empty.
1. Install or clone windows to one of 120GB SSDs. Used space in OS partition is ~90GB. It fits onto 120GB drive.
2. Then delete OS partition from 1TB drive (partition named "SSD 480GB NVME").
3. Move or clone partition from 480GB drive to 1TB drive ("HDD 1TB Part1").
4. Delete partition from 480GB drive. It becomes empty.
5. Install or clone OS to 480GB drive.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm planning to buy a game that strongly recommands the use of an SSD, what should I do?

Replace one of the 120GB SSDs with a 500GB or 1TB.
Quick and easy.

 

[Order 66]

Whenever you reinstall windows, you should always disconnect other drives because if you don't things like this are very common. You could also reinstall windows on the nvme and disconnect all other drives and not have to worry about it again.