Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - Harddrive Operating System

[HBSound]

This motherboard can host three M.2 drives. I have 2 - 2TB WD 850 and 1 - 500GB WB 850 in the last. The 500GB Hardrive hosted the operating system when the system was set up. To my surprise, I ran out of the room pretty quickly. So I did a clean sweep of the operating system and placed the operating system on one of the 2 TB Drives. And now use the other 2TB and 500 GB hard drive, storage, etc. I took the 500GB hard drive and formatted the drive quite a few times to ease everything. I want to remove the drive and keep going on. But when I reached in and pulled the 500GB drive. I hit the button to turn on the computer and received problematic drive errors. Because this happened about a month ago, I do not know the specific errors. So I placed the drive in the other bays in the same slot the 500GB drive was in. Nothing happened, and I did then with the other 2TB drive too. To this point, I got frustrated, reinserted all three drives back in three locations, and the computer functions normally.

The manual does not do an excellent job of speaking about this matter. So I do not know how to pull the drive and leave the other drives in their exact location.

I followed the layout below - A = 500GB, B = 2TB, and C = 2TB.

And to be honest, I have no clue which 2TB drive hosts the operating system.

Does this make sense?

How can I remove the drive and keep everything else in place?

 

[Toothless]

Task manager will tell you which disk is the OS disk in the details on the bottom.

 

[HBSound]

The task manager identifies the C drive, but it does not say which drive and is located in which socket. I even checked the properties for the drives.

 

[Toothless]

Same exact 2TB drives?

 

[HBSound]

Same exact 2TB drives?

Yes. 2 - 2TB drives, and 1 - 500GB hard drive

 

[Toothless]

Yes. 2 - 2TB drives, and 1 - 500GB hard drive

Gonna have to yoink one and see if it boots or not.

 

[eidairaman1]

Try this first

Hwinfo64

Last but not least remove 1 of the 2 drives the os may be on.

 

[HBSound]

Thanks!

I see disk management and I see the drives.

Here is the issue - IF I remve the drive from computer. What will the computer no longer boot. The drive i want to remove is the E drive and not used for anyting. What do I remove this non operating system drive and now my computer no longer wants to boot?

Is there something I can do rather in the bios or etc?

Nothing in the management itendifies the location of the drive.

 

[Deleted member 232534]

Thanks!

I see disk management and I see the drives.

Here is the issue - IF I remve the drive from computer. What will the computer no longer boot. The drive i want to remove is the E drive and not used for anyting. What do I remove this non operating system drive and now my computer no longer wants to boot?

Is there something I can do rather in the bios or etc?

Nothing in the management itendifies the location of the drive.


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you might have the EFI partition on a drive you are removing. In this case you will need to create EFI partition on drive you want to keep and recreate efi boot files there so it boots your system. Thats for sure.

unfortunately also your windows 11 install might require one of those "recovery partitions", but i'm not knowledgeable about that and don't want to

please send detailed partition tables of the drives

 

[HBSound]

 

[Deleted member 232534]

yes, your efi partition is on a drive you want to remove,

you need to
a) shrink the c partition on disk 0
b) add ~1000mb efi partition to disk 0, format it to fat (you can remove the disk 1 in this step)
c) boot windows installation pendrive, chose command prompt recovery, assign a letter to efi partition (for example K), write bcdboot C:\windows /s K: reboot