Question: Hey guys. Recently I just bought a new laptop. It comes with a 512GB SSD drive and an empty slot for another HDD. I have been only use the SSD drive, therefore, there is nothing in my HDD slot. But I want to make good use of my old laptop by transferring the HDD in the old laptop to the empty HDD slot in the new one. I don’t really need any data from my old HDD. I just want it to be like a brand new HDD for my new laptop. Is there anyway to do this? Thank you!
Answer:Assuming the laptop already has its own drive with OS, no problem.
Put the drive in, make sure the boot order is looking at the existing drive in the laptop, and the commandline function diskpart and the clean command will completely wipe that drive.
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