Deleting C: Drive

[jasper21]

So I just recently acquired a new Kingston Hyper X ssd, and wanted to do a clean install of windows on it, however I would like to remove the OS on my old WD Green 3tb drive and just make it as the secondary drive without any OS installed on it.

 

As of now the WD Green 3tb drive is portioned as follows:

C: Windows OS/Some junk files

D: Games/Apps

E: Files

 

Now I was wondering, can I just delete/format the C: Drive partition to get rid of the OS and then realocate the volume to the other drives? Would that work?

I don't have an external drive to copy my files into, as my files and games result to atleast 2.5tb of data and I have no external drive that could handle that.

 

My new SSD is only 250gb.

 

How should I go about it without having to reformat the whole 3tb hdd?

 

Help... thanks!

 

[ProdigyzMined]

Unless your OS partition on your main drive is under 250gb, there's no way to transfer it to your SSD; you'll have to do a clean install. I'd say install your OS on the SSD without touching the HDD, then transfer over all important files and format the 3tb drive. Then you can use it as an auxiliary drive.

[Verrierr]

11 minutes ago, jasper21 said:

can I just delete/format the C:

Yes you can, provided you're booted from another device. It should work fine.

[Verrierr]

1 minute ago, ProdigyzMined said:

Unless your OS partition on your main drive is under 250gb, there's no way to transfer it to your SSD;

 

13 minutes ago, jasper21 said:

and wanted to do a clean install of windows on it,

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[ProdigyzMined]

2 minutes ago, Verrierr said:

 

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Oh, my bad

[jasper21]

So I will first do a clean install on my SSD, then after that I will plug in my old hdd, boot off the new SSD and then remove the C: Partition off the old HDD and this will not affect my game file nor my data file in D: and E: right?

 

Will there be any big difference between

1. Just deleting drive C:

2. Backing Up files to an external hdd and then reformatting the old HDD

 

Performance? Or would it be the same?

 

[Verrierr]

14 hours ago, jasper21 said:

So I will first do a clean install on my SSD, then after that I will plug in my old hdd, boot off the new SSD and then remove the C: Partition off the old HDD and this will not affect my game file nor my data file in D: and E: right?

 

Will there be any big difference between

1. Just deleting drive C:

2. Backing Up files to an external hdd and then reformatting the old HDD

 

Performance? Or would it be the same?

 

Effectively the same thing.