Ok so I just had to reinstall windows onto my SSD and that worked fine. I also have a 1TB Western Digital Mechanical drive and I am not sure how to actually get it to show up and let me download things onto it again. I have data currently on it that I don't want to lose and I'm under the assumption that if I format it the way you do a new drive that I will lose all of that data. So my question is, what do I have to do to get the drive to work? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Formatting a old Hard Drive
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ronintexas
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If you have room on your SSD to temporarily transfer the data - do that....if you have an external drive that would be the 2nd option.
Last option - you will need to go into disk manager, remove the system partition, extend your normal partition to fill the drive, and then remove the files (like the windows folders) that you don't want on it. You do not have to format the drive.
Last option - you will need to go into disk manager, remove the system partition, extend your normal partition to fill the drive, and then remove the files (like the windows folders) that you don't want on it. You do not have to format the drive.
anti-painkilla
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Hopefully this tutorial will cover what you need.
If you can get a HDD to copy the files you want to keep then you can copy them across and format the drive. Just be careful where you have kept things. 'My docs' as well as any other locations that you can think of. Otherwise just copy the whole drive and slowly get rid of what you don't need.
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