Wiping my HD

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Chad T

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Hi bought a SSD and I figure i just want to completely start over with my computer and all files and make it brandy new again. I don't really care about anything on it so my question is how do I "format" my hard drive that has my OS on it already. I want nothing on my hard drive, how do i do this ?
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During the Windows installation, you will have the opportunity to delete existing partitions on any detected hard disk. Deleting the partition and creating a new one will erase anything on your drive for you.
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better yet... once the new system is up, add the old HD back into the system, goto Computer, right click, select Manage, goto Disk Management, find the drive, right click on the partitions and select delete... do this for all until you have awhole disk without anything. Now create a new partition covering the whole disk and format it... TaDa, you now have a Data Storage drive!
 
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So I load my os disk and download it to my ssd. I load in to my computer and I am prompted to either pick windows 8 or windows 8.1 (windows 8 is on ssd)(windows 8.1 is on my old HDD) so I go ahead and pick windows 8 and go to "my computer" like you said and try and format my old HDD it and it gives me an error message saying windows is in use by this drive it may cause harm to your computer if you format it and it does not let me format it. So I think I messed something in BIOS up so I switch my boot from my disk drive to my ssd with windows 8 on it. Save restart and get an error message something to the effect of
"Recovery"
Enter to try again
F8 for reboot
And and other option idk

So I'm like fooook this I reset CMOS and go back to my BIOS and make my old HDD my boot drive and it works now. So I'm not really too sure what I did wrong :/
Help

 
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If you restart the Windows setup from your Windows DVD, you will be able to use the drive partitioning utility to wipe your HDD, and leave the SSD as it is. After doing this, you should be able to boot into the single copy of Windows 8 still residing on the computer and remove the entry for the now deleted copy of Windows 8.1. Use the msconfig.exe tool, switch to the Boot tab, and delete the boot entry that no longer points to a valid installation.
 
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