Question: Hi all,
A few years ago I bought a laptop that had a HDD and I upgraded it to an SSD. I am not sure exactly what the process was because I did not do it myself, my school IT did it.
Now I have built a new PC and took that SSD out of the laptop and put it in my new build, but want to use the old HDD for additional space. This is the HDD that had windows removed from it.
Can I just hook this HDD up to the new rig and it’s all ready to go to use as storage only? Or do I have to do something with the partitions or something else to get it working?
Thanks in advance.
Answer:You need to delete the exiting partitions on it by rt clicking them in the lower section of disk management and selecting Delete.
Once the drive is empty, rt click on the unallocated area and select intitialize. Go with the defaults except for the name (your choice) and letter you want to assign to it)
Or you could run Diskpart Clean on the drive. Please make very sure you select the correct disk.
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/how-to-diskpart-eraseclean-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/