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Ok so I bought new SSD for boot drive, and another mechanical for storage, total of 3 drives (including my old one).

I reinstalled fresh. I'm now dual booting windows 8 and windows 8 with my same copy of windows. I want to wipe my old windows drive for additional storage and windows won't let me, because it recognizes the windows install.

so I want windows on my SSD only, with my 2 mechanical drives for storage.

Right now I have windows on my SSD, and another install of windows on my old drive which windows won't let me format.

Probably an easy fix, but I don't have the patience for it... Boot from windows iso and wipe it somehow?
 
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You shoudn't have wasted your money on a clean install. You should have used a backup service like paragon and transferred the OS to the SSD. Or better yet, use the SSD migration service
 
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Thanks, but I backed everything up - I wanted a clean install on a clean SSD. The change was about adding an SSD because I wanted one... Not wasting money.

How do I nuke the old drive? At this point it dual boots, but I can still move files on and off it. I just want to nuke the old drive and turn it into storage - right now it's like 80% full with old junk I already backed up.
 
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Oooh, sorry, my bad. I would right click on the hard drive in my computer, then click format. That would take care of it.
 
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i think this should solve your problem

Open Computer Management by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Computer Management. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

In the Navigation pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.

Right-click the volume that you want to format, and then click Format.

To format the volume with the default settings, in the Format dialog box, click OK, and then click OK again.
 
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Thanks, I did try this method previously and it wouldn't let me. I probably should have tried aldan's suggestion but I don't have another computer handy so I just reinstalled windows (again...). My internet is pretty good and the install goes quick with an SSD so I said heck with it and just reinstalled and reformatted all 3 drives.

Thanks for all your feedback guys.
 
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