Hard drive erase

[orangebeaver45]

Hello I have a quick question its the remove everything a good choice to get everything off of my hard drive so I can put it in a new pc with a ssd as boot drive and that as a storage drive because it is a 1tb of unused space if I just buy a new drive 

[cyanit]

yes, but if you want to keep things like music and documents you should make a backup first. And be aware that the system ist gone as well if you do that!

[bgibbz]

^{where are you getting this option? This looks like the reset screen, which would reinstall the OS.}

 

^{I would put it into the new machine as is and use diskpart clean to wipe it.} 

[Windows7ge]

What bgibbz said. If this is going to be nothing but a storage drive I'd do a full wipe on it not just a windows factory reset. You can achieve it by diskpart via CMD or go to This PC right click the drive you want to wipe > format > (de-select quick format) > wait patiently for it to finish.

[Mira Yurizaki]

17 minutes ago, orangebeaver45 said:

Hello I have a quick question its the remove everything a good choice to get everything off of my hard drive so I can put it in a new pc with a ssd as boot drive and that as a storage drive because it is a 1tb of unused space if I just buy a new drive 

This looks like the option in the Reset feature, which, while it will erase everything off the HDD, Windows will reinstall itself onto it.

 

If you don't want anything on the HDD, plug it into your new computer and reformat it. If you really want to make sure everything's erased, use a secure erase tool (CCleaner has one)

[orangebeaver45]

18 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

This looks like the option in the Reset feature, which, while it will erase everything off the HDD, Windows will reinstall itself onto it.

 

If you don't want anything on the HDD, plug it into your new computer and reformat it. If you really want to make sure everything's erased, use a secure erase tool (CCleaner has one)

thank you