bunny slippers
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Had, and still have installed in machine, an SSD with Windows 7 as OS
Had, and still have, a Western Digital 2 TB external HD attached. It was used as back up for the original set up. This also has the Smart Ware software installed but which I have not used.
Tried a dual boot on a new SSD using Windows 8.1 recently but turned out ot be a pain so I simply installed 8.1 on new disk.
The problem-
When I boot and Windows 8.1 starts, window showing the external hard drive and contents appears. Annoying. How can I stop this?
I am planning to reformat this external storage and redo the back up using the new 8.1 OS and current content of the my other HDD containing our data, will this likely stop the "pop-up" on start?
Thank you for any assistance or ideas.
Had, and still have, a Western Digital 2 TB external HD attached. It was used as back up for the original set up. This also has the Smart Ware software installed but which I have not used.
Tried a dual boot on a new SSD using Windows 8.1 recently but turned out ot be a pain so I simply installed 8.1 on new disk.
The problem-
When I boot and Windows 8.1 starts, window showing the external hard drive and contents appears. Annoying. How can I stop this?
I am planning to reformat this external storage and redo the back up using the new 8.1 OS and current content of the my other HDD containing our data, will this likely stop the "pop-up" on start?
Thank you for any assistance or ideas.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8,1 64bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- custom build
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 3820 Quad
- Motherboard
- ASUS p9X79 Pro
- Memory
- Corsair 1600C9 Vengeance
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- Browser
- Cyberfox
- Antivirus
- Avast pro