[SOLVED] One of two SSD drives is being overwritten and mirrored from another drive every night. How can I keep this from happening?

[esbowman]

So here is my situation. I have three total drives in my computer.

• The main OS drive is an M2 drive, that is my C: drive.
• Second drive is a Samsung SSD 1TB drive that I use as the D: drive and it's labeled Projects
• Third drive is a matching Samsung SSD 1TB drive that I use as the E: drive and it's labeled Projects Backup.

My intention is to eventually use GoodSync to mirror the two drives nightly, but I need to first limit the weird existing behavior.

The E drive was originally used in a different computer that my wife used. I pulled the drive, formatted it and placed it in my new desktop. Here's the weird part however. It continues to populate itself with files that are somewhat similar to the D drive, but also adds a Recovery folder, MapData and Program Files folder. Every morning I'll look at the drive and no matter what I do the files return. I've formatted it at least twice now and can't get windows to leave it alone. I also used Diskpart Clean to format again after some advice on the MS windows forums and that didn't solve it.

Final note, I used to have Macrium reflect installed, but it was only set to clone my OS drive. However, it was being backed up to the E: drive (i think). I've since uninstalled Macrium and no longer use it. When I uninstalled I checked all the boxes to remove logs, settings etc. My hunch is that it's still doing something to clone the drive, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove it fully.

Any ideas?

Also, attaching my disk management screenshot.

 

[USAFRet]

Uninstalled Macrium won't do anything.

Look in your Events Viewer to see what might be doing this copy thing.

 

[thx1138v2]

Look at your Scheduled Tasks. There might be something there. You will need to check all of the computers in your house.

 

[esbowman]

Luckily only one computer being used right now. Will look at Events Viewer and Scheduled Tasks. Good calls. Thanks.

 

[SkyNetRising]

It continues to populate itself with files that are somewhat similar to the D drive, but also adds a Recovery folder, MapData and Program Files folder.
Any ideas?

Look at your storage settings.
You probably have changed, where new apps and new maps are getting saved. Some of it goes to drive E: .

Settings/System/Storage/Change where new content is saved

 

[SkyNetRising]

BTW - I wouldn't suggest using SSD for nightly backups. You'll wear it out pretty quickly.
That's ~ 400GB writes/per day.
Use mechanical drive instead.

 

[esbowman]

Look at your Scheduled Tasks. There might be something there. You will need to check all of the computers in your house.

This helped me out. Thanks!

At some point I had SyncBackFree installed from 2sparks and it was causing the issue. I uninstalled it forever ago, but apparently that never truly uninstalled the program. I deleted all references to it in the Registry Editor, removed the scheduled tasks, opened the program and removed all scheduled tasks there, and manually removed it all. Fingers crossed that will fix the issue.

Thanks all!

 

[esbowman]

BTW - I wouldn't suggest using SSD for nightly backups. You'll wear it out pretty quickly.
That's ~ 400GB writes/per day.
Use mechanical drive instead.

Nah, it's only going to be a sync...didn't mean a true one-to-one backup nightly. So, in essence it would be more of a read then write of whatever files I added to the primary drive that day. Should be good. That said, yeah...if I had an old spindle drive that would be sufficient. Only SSDs at the moment.