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I agree with Sedril, remove secondary drives to avoid any issues.
I almost always disconnected all drives except the one clean install is supposed to go on. By careful installation at first stages it can be avoided, I always give distinct names to all disks and partitions so I can know exactly where installation should go to. Most problems come from an active partition on other disks, specially if there is/was and OS on them. Linux installation is more problematic because it uses different conventions and partition names and partition schemes.
Hi there @essenbe
Just re-iterating again the warning that could lose you data if you don't take precautions before a windows clean install.
Also on some computers it's not so easy to disconnect HDD's without performing a "major Engineering" project !! - especially those with newer ones with the SSD M2 type of things (the SSD's that look a bit like memory chips instead of the standard 2,5 inch ones) that are now soldered on to mobos.
Also I still think Windows install should have an option at install time with checkbox to say don't use these HDD's.
Cheers
jimbo