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Erasing everything from HDD

gediminaskaz
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Hi,  I have one silly question sorry for that :)

 

Now I have only one 1TB HDD drive wherein windows is running  and I'm planing to buy a new SSD drive to run windows on it and keep that 1TB drive for storage.

 

So will I be able to add that 1TB HDD to a new system, format it there? Or first I shuold delete everything from that 1TB HDD? If yes, how?

 

I'm a little confused now.

 

 

 

Sorry for bad english.

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So will I be able to add that 1TB HDD to a new system, format it there? Or first I shuold delete everything from that 1TB HDD? If yes, how?

Either way works fine. If you choose to format it in the new system, you can do that during the OS installation.

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Hi there @gediminaskaz!

 
You can do it both ways, but I would personally prefer simply to reformat the second drive once you add it to the computer after the Windows installation. Here are the steps I would recommend to follow when initializing SSD and a HDD:
 
Plug in the SSD.
Disconnect old HDD to avoid confusion. 
Insert Boot medium, whether it be CD/USB with a copy of your selected OS.
Boot off that device.
Install the OS onto the SSD.
Plug in the HDD and use Disk Manager to Format it.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Cheers! :)

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