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wiping out HD including the OS

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September 15, 2013 5:08:38 PM

Hai,
So half a year after building my computer, I decided to invest into a ssd as a second hard drive for booting up the OS and running some of my more played games. I'm going to completely wipe the first hard drive, (some 7200rpm 250gb wd blue HD) and use it as a storage device for everything else, but I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Right now I'm leaning towards using a third party program like DBAN, but someone told me to reformat > remove the OS. Any tips? Pros / Cons? Alternatives? Also, will I be able to use the HD as a storage device if i DBAN?

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September 15, 2013 5:20:09 PM

Yes DBAN is best, your drive will be fine after, an in a almost virgin state. Make sure you un-plug EVERY thing, otherwise it will not run. EX. card readers, ssd, speakers... The only thing plugged in are the keyboard, DVD & the target drive. When you boot the only thing dban can see/showing is the target drive otherwise it will never start. It works great.
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September 15, 2013 5:29:40 PM

Once you have the OS up and running on the SSD, just about any method is OK. DBAN, regular format in Windows, Delete Partition in Disk Management. Whichever.

Just be sure you also get rid of the small System Reserved partition that was created during the Windows install on the original HDD.
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