How do i clear a hardrive with windows 10

[Nomac]

I got a new computer with a 250 gb harddrive and i had a old laptop with a 1tb so i took it out and i added it, i went to clear it eveything cleared exept the windows and stuff it says i cant clear it anyone know how to fix this

[MVPernula]

Go into disc management and format the drive.

[Guest]

If you would like to delete everything from the 1TB. Open up My Computer. right click the drive, and hit format. Press "Start."

This is not reversible, so make sure it's what you want to do.

There are other methods, but that is simplest and should serve your needs.

[Nomac]

Just now, Legendarypoet said:

If you would like to delete everything from the 1TB. Open up My Computer. right click the driver, and hit format. Press "Start."

This is not reversible, so make sure it's what you want to do.

There are other methods, but that is simplest and should server your needs.

Okay thank you so much!

 

[Nomac]

2 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

If you would like to delete everything from the 1TB. Open up My Computer. right click the driver, and hit format. Press "Start."

This is not reversible, so make sure it's what you want to do.

There are other methods, but that is simplest and should server your needs.

the hardrives empty but do you know why it is 915gb insted of 1tb is that on every drive

 

 

[Guest]

Just now, Nomac said:

so now the hardrive should be empty?

 

Assuming you did not get any errors, yes.

 

 

[joshdavies]

7 minutes ago, Nomac said:

the hardrives empty but do you know why it is 915gb insted of 1tb is that on every drive

When you format a drive, Windows does some stuff to it so it can use it properly. I have a 1TB HDD in my laptop and only 930GB is usable. I would say don't worry and it is normal.

 

Apologies for the not very technical answer, I'm not the best with this stuff  Someone may be able to elaborate if required.

[NinJake]

Plus there's a difference between bytes and bits. And it depends how the device is marketed.

[paddy-stone]

It's not to do with that at all... Most HDDs are in Gigabytes, whereas Windows uses Gibibytes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte