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if your new drive is registered as your C drive and seen as the C drive under This PC within windows then you should be able to just format the old drive.

14 minutes ago, HeliturtleOP said:

the old one was pinned at 100%usage for a while inexplicably

Might have been indexing ? after all your C drive was changed and the older drive was seen as an extra drive and the system makes an index of what is stored on it.

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I just built a new PC, and put the old 1TB SATA SSD into the PC, as well as a 2TB nvme SSD.

 

 

I cloned everything from the old one to the new one, and now I want to use the old one as extra storage but I can't figure out how.

 

The old one still has everything that the new one has on it, so I tried reformating it, but my PC is telling me it's in use.

 

I'm pretty sure I'm booted off of the nvme SSD, so I'm not sure what's using the old one.

 

Is it safe to just format it, or do I need to do something to stop my PC from using it before I format it?

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21 minutes ago, johnno23 said:

boot in bios select the 2tb SSD as you boot drive.

it should then be fine to format the older one but right now it sounds like the PC regards the older driver a being your C drive

have you double checked ?

I have double-checked, and my new drive is my C drive, I was just concerned because when I restarted after cloning, and setting the new one to take priority in the bios, the old one was pinned at 100%usage for a while inexplicably.

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if your new drive is registered as your C drive and seen as the C drive under This PC within windows then you should be able to just format the old drive.

14 minutes ago, HeliturtleOP said:

the old one was pinned at 100%usage for a while inexplicably

Might have been indexing ? after all your C drive was changed and the older drive was seen as an extra drive and the system makes an index of what is stored on it.

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44 minutes ago, HeliturtleOP said:

I have double-checked, and my new drive is my C drive, I was just concerned because when I restarted after cloning, and setting the new one to take priority in the bios, the old one was pinned at 100%usage for a while inexplicably.

Turn PC off, unplug the SATA SSD. If it boots fine, and everything works as normal, you would be fine to wipe it.

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53 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Turn PC off, unplug the SATA SSD. If it boots fine, and everything works as normal, you would be fine to wipe it.

Yeah do this to be completely sure.

If works then plug old back in and format.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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