Disk Management

[Deer God]

I finally got my SSD installed and set up as my boot drive, it booted up fine and everything felt fine, but when I open my disk management it looks like something might be wrong. anybody know what I have to do to set up the old HDD just for media storage?

 

attached is a screenshot of what disk management looks like and what "this pc" looks like

[Stevoisboss]

Looks fine to me. You have to take all your files off the harddrive with a thumbdrive and reformat the hdd then transfer files back on. 

[bgibbz]

Back up all data on your old drive. THIS WILL DELETE EVEYTHING ON THAT DRIVE. 

 

Right click the windows button and run cmd prompt as admin. 

 

Type

 

>diskpart

>list disk

>sel disk ## (number is drive number from above command)

>clean

>cre par pri 

>format fs=ntfs quick

 

Do not type the ">" symbol btw

 

also, you did not install windows in uefi mode. If your motherboard doesn't support it, no problem, otherwise you may want to reinstall now before you fully populate your clean install, as it adds some benefits. . 

[Deer God]

1 minute ago, Stevoisboss said:

Looks fine to me. 

so if I format the HDD and restore device defaults it should be all good?

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Best to backup your data to an external source, format the HDD within Windows, then just transfer the data back. The reason being is that if you leave that Windows install, it's possible your system may boot off the HDD without you noticing if something goes wrong.

[Stevoisboss]

Just now, Deer God said:

so if I format the HDD and restore device defaults it should be all good?

 

I updated my post to be more clear. Yea you just need to move files off of it and format it then move files back. 

[Deer God]

1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

Back up all data on your old drive. THIS WILL DELETE EVEYTHING ON THAT DRIVE. 

 

Right click the windows button and run cmd prompt as admin. 

 

Type

>diskpart

>list disk

>sel disk ##

>clean

>cre par pri 

>format fps=ntfs quick

 

 

would it be easier to do this by right clicking that drive under this pc and going to format/restore device defaults?

[Stevoisboss]

2 minutes ago, Deer God said:

would it be easier to do this by right clicking that drive under this pc and going to format/restore device defaults?

Then you don't feel like a hacker and have to make your profile a picture of a black hoodie to make yourself feel more like a hacker. Everyone hates those people. 

[Deer God]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Best to backup your data to an external source, format the HDD within Windows, then just transfer the data back. The reason being is that if you leave that Windows install, it's possible your system may boot off the HDD without you noticing if something goes wrong.

I currently dont need any of the data on the HDD. it's all cloned to the SSD. Is it safe to just clear the HDD?

[bgibbz]

Just now, Deer God said:

would it be easier to do this by right clicking that drive under this pc and going to format/restore device defaults?

You can but in my experience doing it through the command line is faster and cleaner. Often times you cannot manually delete all partitions from disk manager.