Resetting my old hard drive

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I have a Windows 8 PC I built last year, for gaming mostly. Recently my HDD died on me and I'm not overly savvy with this, I couldn't get it to boot or repair. I decided to upgrade to an SSD for the heck of it and I'm not worried about my files at all. I clean installed on the new SSD and would like to use my old HDD as a secondary drive for other files than OS and some games. Is there an easy way to format the HDD, I can't seem to recognize it when I'm booted on my SSD, and I am failing at googling a good answer.
 
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try going disk management. Hits the windows+x keys to open the power users menu and you'll see the option. If the drive is listed there you can rt click on it and change the drive letter, format it...

If the harddrive is not listed there you will need to reboot into the bios and see if its listed there. If its not listed there then check the cables. If power and data cables are good then it looks like the drive may be bad after all.
 
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So I cannot see it in disk management at all, just my SSD. However I do see it in my bios as a bootable drive.
 
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