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Katie Carson
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I need some advice, regarding conflicting disk drives.
First off, I'm fairly new to PC building.
My PC is a pre-built by PCSpecialist (I know, it's not brilliant) and I had my uncle set it up for me, but I wasn't aware that he disconnected the 1TB HDD until a day or so ago when I opened it up for the first time to clean out the dust.
My PC has been running off a 250GB SSD for about a year now, and naturally my storage space has dwindled over time.
I thought I'd connect the HDD to allow me to have more storage, but that caused some problems:
It seems Windows has already been installed on the HDD as well as the SSD, so they have been conflicting with each other. Each time I start up, I need to open the BIOs and boot into the SSD.
If I disconnect the HDD, the SSD would log me in to the wrong profile. (took me an hour to figure this out, so I had to reconnect the HDD to open BIOs and do the steps I mentioned previously)
I've been told I need to format the HDD but it won't allow me to do so because it is still in use (let me quote: "This drive is still in use. Another program or process is using this drive."
This whole thing is driving me mad lmao. Wishing I never bothered trying to connect the HDD in the first place.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.
First off, I'm fairly new to PC building.
My PC is a pre-built by PCSpecialist (I know, it's not brilliant) and I had my uncle set it up for me, but I wasn't aware that he disconnected the 1TB HDD until a day or so ago when I opened it up for the first time to clean out the dust.
My PC has been running off a 250GB SSD for about a year now, and naturally my storage space has dwindled over time.
I thought I'd connect the HDD to allow me to have more storage, but that caused some problems:
It seems Windows has already been installed on the HDD as well as the SSD, so they have been conflicting with each other. Each time I start up, I need to open the BIOs and boot into the SSD.
If I disconnect the HDD, the SSD would log me in to the wrong profile. (took me an hour to figure this out, so I had to reconnect the HDD to open BIOs and do the steps I mentioned previously)
I've been told I need to format the HDD but it won't allow me to do so because it is still in use (let me quote: "This drive is still in use. Another program or process is using this drive."
This whole thing is driving me mad lmao. Wishing I never bothered trying to connect the HDD in the first place.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.
