Having a problem with correct labels of my harddrives and in the BIOS for an M1730.
I installed an SSD for the operating system.
I followed the Dell instructions for adding a 2nd harddrive. Put the SSD and mechanical drive in their proper slots. SSD slot 1, mechanical drive slot 2.
I installed the OS on the SSD. (No other disc drives were connected during installation and windows update)
The original OS was on the mechanical drive. using disk management or diskpart, I can\t remember now. It's been 8 re-installations over a few days because of trouble udpating windows. I removed all partitions to make 1 large unallocated drive and formatted.
After the SSD finished updating windows, I connected the mechanical drive to use as my data drive.
Then I noticed...
1) BIOS shows "second harddrive" as my SSD (operating system)
the mechanical drive is listed as main harddrive with "NIC and system files" or something to that effect.
After I removed all visible partitions and formatted, thought the drive was a blank drive.
2) Initially, my SSD was recognized as Disk 1. Mechanical drive as disk 0.
I re-installed windows with only the SSD in the machine. the SSD became disk 0.
Then, after connecting the original mechanical drive (with nothing on it) and rebooting, they swapped numbers again. Does that matter? mechanical drive is now disk 0 (again) and SSD disk 1.
I haven't run into any problems. I was just being OCD about why the BIOS reads that way and why the disks changed numbers? I am OCD enough that I would do a complete re-installation to correct that though.
Should I just leave it alone?
