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How do i find out which physical disk is my E: drive in windows 2012 machine

I have Dell Poweredge R720 with 8 hard drives and when i look at the my computer window, in this server which has windows 2012, I see 8 letter drives C:,E:,F:,G:,H:,I,:M:L:
They are swap-able drives so i want to take out the E: drive only out of the server and do not touch the rest of the drives because i have programs running in the other 7 drives that i cannot turn off. Please help me what type of software i need to use in order to be able do this task. i already try to use dell server administrator but in the interface it does not give which physical drive is the e: drive.
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Not a Dell person, but in HP smart Array you can blink a hard drive.  I thought you could in the old Poweredge's I used to have.
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yes i can blink them but in the dell server administrator interface it does not tell me which physical disk is the e: drive(see the attached screenshot). All 8 drives are the same size and same brand so i cannot tell who is who, please help
here is attached screenshot sorry.
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What a strange setup! Normally you would have RAID arrays setup in a server, and so drive letters wouldn't be associated to a single disk, but rather to at least two of them. That's what you have hot-swappable caddies and and RAID controllers for.
Don't see a screenshot.
Hopefully everything is backed up.
The first drive should be the OS??
Not much fun, but off hours you could start pulling them out one by one to see when E: goes offline.
Each one should go offline quickly, then put it back and wait several minutes until synched again and the try the next.
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thanks everybody. i thought there would be some type software out there that could create mapping between windows name to actual physical disk and make them blink but guess not.