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Format it in Windows by right clicking it and selecting "Format". That would be my first suggestion. Since you did a clean Windows install on the SSD there shouldn't be any problems in doing it this way. 

When I first got my PC (w/o an SSD) I used the 90 Day Windows 8.1 Enterprise trial. Once that ran out, I bought an SSD, installed it, reinstalled Windows 8.1 on the new SSD and bought a key from the Microsoft Software Swap reddit. Now I'm running the whole OS on my SSD but I could not delete all the old OS files on my HDD. I'm pretty sure that all of the OS files that I am using are on my SSD, so how can I clear the Windows files off of my HDD so I can have it clean as a storage drive?

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Format it in Windows by right clicking it and selecting "Format". That would be my first suggestion. Since you did a clean Windows install on the SSD there shouldn't be any problems in doing it this way. 

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3 hours ago, Axeonelite said:

Format it in Windows by right clicking it and selecting "Format". That would be my first suggestion. Since you did a clean Windows install on the SSD there shouldn't be any problems in doing it this way. 

Worked perfectly in like 2 seconds lol. Thanks for the help :)

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