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so reformat the first one(disk 0 partition 1) and ill be good or will i need to reformat disk 0 par 1 disk 1 par 1 aswell sorry for all the questions 

No. You make a CD of GParted Live, boot into it, and create a new GPT partition table on disk 0 (the SSD). Your hard drive will be untocuched, but everything on the SSD will be lost. You can GParted Live at http://gparted.org/download.php

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i thought i might have and some virus/malware ext. on my computer so i went a little delete happy with files, and might have deleted some important files. when/if i do reintall it will i have to put all the MOBO drivers back on and stuff? also i have and extra HDD, if i wanted to wipe that clean do i just right click it and hit reformat will that take care of it? i rember when setting it up me and my friend had to go in and set it up or something 

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i thought i might have and some virus/malware ext. on my computer so i went a little delete happy with files, and might have deleted some important files. when/if i do reintall it will i have to put all the MOBO drivers back on and stuff? also i have and extra HDD, if i wanted to wipe that clean do i just right click it and hit reformat will that take care of it? i rember when setting it up me and my friend had to go in and set it up or something 

Yes and yes. But you don't have to wipe your extra HDD to get a fresh Windows installation.

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Yes. You'll have to reinstall everything you want back on the new install.

 

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besides its best to do a nice clean install anyway :) just as a good bit if house keeping

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Yes and yes. But you don't have to wipe your extra HDD to get a fresh Windows installation.

ok, so the exta HDD wont be effected when i do a fresh install. If i do chose to reformat that drive, will it be ready to use after or do i have to set it up again? thank you

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ok, so the exta HDD wont be effected when i do a fresh install. If i do chose to reformat that drive, will it be ready to use after or do i have to set it up again? thank you

When you reformat, the drive will be ready to use. Also, if you have any programs installed on that HDD, you have to reinstall them after installing Windows.

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When you reformat, the drive will be ready to use. Also, if you have any programs installed on that HDD, you have to reinstall them after installing Windows.

Ok. One more question(sorry) I restallibg windows now and I ran in to this http://imgur.com/Wf8zSPs would disk 0 be my SSD and disk one my HDD and should I reformat disk 0?

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Ok. One more question(sorry) I restallibg windows now and I ran in to this http://imgur.com/Wf8zSPs would disk 0 be my SSD and disk one my HDD and should I reformat disk 0?

Yep, disk 0 is the SSD. And apparently you need to erase the partition table, since you installed it into MBR while your mobo needs GPT. You need a live CD of Linux for that.

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Yep, disk 0 is the SSD. And apparently you need to erase the partition table, since you installed it into MBR while your mobo needs GPT. You need a live CD of Linux for that.

so reformat the first one(disk 0 partition 1) and ill be good or will i need to reformat disk 0 par 1 disk 1 par 1 aswell sorry for all the questions 

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so reformat the first one(disk 0 partition 1) and ill be good or will i need to reformat disk 0 par 1 disk 1 par 1 aswell sorry for all the questions 

No. You make a CD of GParted Live, boot into it, and create a new GPT partition table on disk 0 (the SSD). Your hard drive will be untocuched, but everything on the SSD will be lost. You can GParted Live at http://gparted.org/download.php

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No. You make a CD of GParted Live, boot into it, and create a new GPT partition table on disk 0 (the SSD). Your hard drive will be untocuched, but everything on the SSD will be lost. You can GParted Live at http://gparted.org/download.php

Sorry to keep bugging you. But not sure what to do here. http://imgur.com/oPaYsV5 Wish I could buy you a dinner or something lol

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