Putting laptop hdd into desktop.

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Benjaminbarker

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Hi everyone , about a week ago my my brother broke my laptop's screen and now i will add the hdd to my pc , but how do i format it because it still has windows on it and when i plugged it into my motherboard and turned my pc on i had to launch windows startup repair. So can i format it in the bios because i cant format it on my laptop.
 
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Just to clarify what ariel_ace said and to answer why you had to do a startup repair, when you installed the HDD from the laptop it became the default boot device. This was probably an oversight due to not going straight to the BIOS after plugging it in and confirming that your machine was still booting from it's original drive. Hence, your machine tried to boot from the laptop drive which, of course, had all the wrong drivers, so naturally it tried to repair.

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Go into your BIOS on next boot and make sure you are booting from the original HDD. Once this is done you can happily boot to Windows and then format the old laptop drive from there as aerial_ace suggested.
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There are several ways to Format an HDD

1. Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management
You should have the option there

2. Look up the commands for the DOS-box. Start->enter cmd in search field and start cmd.exe with administrator privileges. Type format F: or whatever your drive name is and follow the instructions.

3. Use some Harddisk management software
 
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You don't have to format it TBH, just plug it in, make sure your BIOS is set to not boot off of it and u can treat it like any other HDD(at this point you could format it through the OS on your PC)
 
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Benjaminbarker

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That is what I tried at first but when windows start my monitor goes into power saving mode. I will try again tomorrow, because I am downloading something and I may have to do system restore in case your solution doesn't work and I don't want to lose the data.
 
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Just to clarify what ariel_ace said and to answer why you had to do a startup repair, when you installed the HDD from the laptop it became the default boot device. This was probably an oversight due to not going straight to the BIOS after plugging it in and confirming that your machine was still booting from it's original drive. Hence, your machine tried to boot from the laptop drive which, of course, had all the wrong drivers, so naturally it tried to repair.

The solution:

Go into your BIOS on next boot and make sure you are booting from the original HDD. Once this is done you can happily boot to Windows and then format the old laptop drive from there as aerial_ace suggested.
 
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