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Moving from HDD to SSD

markopolomp
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So I recently upgraded my girlfriend's computer from a painfully slow 5400rpm HDD to a lightning fast SSD. Or so, I tried to. After some hardware complications, I managed to get the SSD hooked up and installed Windows 10 on it, and formatted the hard drive. However, the HDD still has the Windows recovery partition on it, and the SSD doesn't. Because of this, whenever she restarts her computer, it gives her the option to choose a bootable drive, one being the SSD and the other being the HDD. Ideally, I'd like to have the HDD completely empty to use for regular storage, and possibly a NAS in the near future since I have 2 others to use too. 

 

So in short, how can I safely remove the recovery partition on the HDD in order to fully wipe the drive and prevent any future complications?

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Rerun the Windows installation software, click on the HDD and wipe the drive. Easiest way to do it since you have the installation stuff.

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9 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Rerun the Windows installation software, click on the HDD and wipe the drive. Easiest way to do it since you have the installation stuff.

You will also need to delete all the partition and make a new one

 

You can do this using -- Disk Management -- in windows.

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1 minute ago, Zmax said:

You will also need to delete all the partition and make a new one

 

You can do this using -- Disk Management -- in windows.

ive found using disk managment does not like getting ride of back up and restore partitions on systems for customers and such. Sometimes it works fine, others it tells you nope not gonna do it. 

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1 minute ago, Shimejii said:

ive found using disk managment does not like getting ride of back up and restore partitions on systems for customers and such. Sometimes it works fine, others it tells you nope not gonna do it. 

Never really use it. for that I mainly change partitions when doing clean install.

 

You may be correct.

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What SSD?

I did the same thing last weekend. Ran Samsung migrate. Job done.

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