Is my OS SSD partitioned correctly?

[montague69]

I installed windows on my new SSD while other drives were still connected and was wondering if it was really partitioned correctly as it seems to be missing stuff that my other drives have.
https://puu.sh/BbaCL/b5ad169439.png

edit: I want it to be able to boot without the other drives being required.

 

[jojesa]

It looks like Windows setup created a partition on one of the other drives.
It is not a good idea to connect other drives while installing Windows. Windows will create partitions needed to boot the system on the other drives.
If something happens to any of the other drives, where Windows wrote the partition, your system wont boot.
I would go back, remove the other drives and install Windows selecting Custom Installation and deleting all the partitions on the SSD.

You could remove the other drives and test if your system will boot without them.

 

[montague69]

It looks like Windows setup created a partition on one of the other drives.
It is not a good idea to connect other drives while installing Windows. Windows will create partitions needed to boot the system on the other drives.
If something happens to any of the other drives, where Windows wrote the partition, your system wont boot.
I would go back, remove the other drives and install Windows selecting Custom Installation and deleting all the partitions on the SSD.

You could remove the other drives and test if your system will boot without them.

Is there no way to create the necessary partitions on the SSD without having to reinstall windows?

 

[canadianvice]

It looks like Windows setup created a partition on one of the other drives.
It is not a good idea to connect other drives while installing Windows. Windows will create partitions needed to boot the system on the other drives.
If something happens to any of the other drives, where Windows wrote the partition, your system wont boot.
I would go back, remove the other drives and install Windows selecting Custom Installation and deleting all the partitions on the SSD.

You could remove the other drives and test if your system will boot without them.

Is there no way to create the necessary partitions on the SSD without having to reinstall windows?

Not at this point, unfortunately.

Windows is sort of dumb when it installs, and if you have multiple drives hooked up to the system, sometimes it does not put all of the important boot record partitions on a single drive. This means if the non-OS drive fails, it might take one of these key partitions with it, and your computer won't boot to the OS.

If you want the realistic aspect to this.... it's not hugely likely to matter. I mistakenly ran my system like that for years, but it depends on if your hard disk holds up or not. If you don't want to entertain that risk, then you need to reinstall Windows on your SSD without having any other drives plugged in.