Question About Erasing Hard Drive

[whatishacks]

Hello

 

I built my gaming PC about 4 days ago, and I've bought a few games and am loving it.

 

I threw my broken laptops hard drive in it today, just to see if it worked, and it did.

 

Now, I want to use that second one for strictly music, videos, and pictures.

 

It's 250GB and has windows on it..

 

So my question is, Can i just right click and format it to erase it?  It's not my main drive.

 

IF not, can someone please provide a solution to erasing it!

 

I basically just want to go into it and make 2 folders for music and pictures

[Tedster]

If the laptop drive (which you don't care about the data on at all) is all in one partition then I guess you can do that.

However, I'd go into the Windows Disk Manager (Manage Disk and Hard Drive Partitions or something) and carefully make sure that there's only one partition on the drive, then wipe it, then format it in Windows Explorer.

[whatishacks]

If the laptop drive (which you don't care about the data on at all) is all in one partition then I guess you can do that.

However, I'd go into the Windows Disk Manager (Manage Disk and Hard Drive Partitions or something) and carefully make sure that there's only one partition on the drive, then wipe it, then format it in Windows Explorer.

it says healthy, active, primary partition

[Captain_WD]

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Hey whatishacks,

 

You should be able to do it (as long as you don't boot from it). Make sure you've backed up anything that you might want to keep from the drive elsewhere, go to Disk Management, navigate to the desired drive, right-click on all of the partitions and delete them (this will delete all data from the drive!!!). You should be left with black space that says "Unallocated Space". Right clock on it, set up a new partition, format it and you have a new, empty partition for everything you might need it for.  

 

Captain_WD.