I was concerned about win 10 killing my linux boot loader on my old system, so I installed linux on another drive and would pick from boot menu which drive to load (for some reason my efi wouldn’t let me boot from the sata ssd automatically but windows had a drive in both m.2 slots, I have a new system and don’t worry bout windows messing me up as there is no windows on this machine
Windows acts like it is the only OS installed on the machine. Your best bet is to physically disconnect all other drives while installing windows.
That’s not the problem though. Even if you have no other OS installed, windows still refuses to install on external HDDs.
100% this.
Physically remove the windows drive, then install on your other drive, once it’s all working plug the windows drive back in
Physically removing it is overkill. Just disconnect the SATA cable.
Searches for a SATA cable, cries in multiple m.2
I was concerned about win 10 killing my linux boot loader on my old system, so I installed linux on another drive and would pick from boot menu which drive to load (for some reason my efi wouldn’t let me boot from the sata ssd automatically but windows had a drive in both m.2 slots, I have a new system and don’t worry bout windows messing me up as there is no windows on this machine