Never install windows with all drives plugged in.... My lord how many times lol, windows install you only plug the drives you want as primary and slaves plugged in. Other wise if you plan on removing these drives in the future you cannot. And it seems like you have done this number of times so there's a couple copies.I had to delete some drives after upgrading MB..One drive ended up with two recovery partitions, not I notice on my drive I use mainly to store backups, this drive has what looks to me as a boot sector...(Disk 1 ) That another problem?
Never install windows with all drives plugged in.... My lord how many times lol, windows install you only plug the drives you want as primary and slaves plugged in. Other wise if you plan on removing these drives in the future you cannot. And it seems like you have done this number of times so there's a couple copies.
Best bet would to be reset the whole PC, delete the secondary drives remove them and reinstall windows.I had to delete some drives after upgrading MB..One drive ended up with two recovery partitions, not I notice on my drive I use mainly to store backups, this drive has what looks to me as a boot sector...(Disk 1 ) That another problem?
I don't follow, I deleted Disk 1...I used Disk mgt to create partitions and then copied my data to disk 1..Best bet would to be reset the whole PC, delete the secondary drives remove them and reinstall windows.
Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.I don't follow, I deleted Disk 1...I used Disk mgt to create partitions and then copied my data to disk 1..
What would you use to create a new partition? Would not windows boot disk (USB) put me back in the same boat
Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.