Question: I’m getting an SSD for this pc build, obviously im using it to install windows, but after that I need a hard drive for storage. Luckily, I do have this 1 TB hard drive in my prebuilt, and I was wondering if it’s safe it reuse after resetting the pc and removing everything.
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I’m getting an SSD for this pc build, obviously im using it to install windows, but after that I need a hard drive for storage. Luckily, I do have this 1 TB hard drive in my prebuilt, and I was wondering if it’s safe it reuse after resetting the pc and removing everything.
You can’t “reset” to a new drive.
That will be a full fresh install on this SSD.
During that “reset and remove everything”, you can’t choose which drive to apply it to.
So, you do the install with only the SSD connected.
Later, you reconnect the HDD and you can wipe it clean of ALL data.
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For the HDD, commandline function diskpart, and the clean command will wipe everything on it.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html
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