HP Pavilion 500-326na Drive Letters

[DJK53]

I recently posted a question regarding the two 500-326na's I have and getting at least one of them to run with a mix of a SATA SSD and MVMe drives.

The help I got was invaluable and I now have a super quiet, reasonably performant machine I can use in my home music studio without the risk of recording the sound of the hard drive. The fans are quiet enough that they should not be picked up.

My ultimate goal is to use the SSD as my boot drive and the MVMe for apps and recordings, as its faster. Right now because of the way I had to go to get the system up and running, it's non compliant W11 hardware, I had to clone my already worked around C drive onto the SSD, which has left that showing as drive D.

To compound matters the NVMe card I bought came preinstalled with W11, bought from a guy that pulled it from a new system in order to add a bigger C drive.

So right now I have my apps and data drive (with an install of W11) showing a C and my OS drive showing as D.

Now to the questions

1. Do I just go into device manager and change the drive letters? 

2. What would happen if I delete the W11 install from the NVMe drive and left things as they are? Am I currently booting from there? I can't tell!

The SSD drive (D) is connected to SATA port 0 on the motherboard, am I right in thinking that the system should boot from there regardless of drive letter?

Many thanks again for any advice, and apologies for asking so many questions

David

[DJK53]

I think I've fixed it.....

[Raj_05]

Hi @DJK53,

Thank you for your response, 

Is there anything else that I can help you with today?

Take care and have a great day ahead!

Alden4

HP Support