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Donny88

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I upgraded my old hard disk running Win 8.1 to a new SSD and I used Acronis to Clone the Old hard disk.
I would like to re use my old hard disk as a back up system only. How can I format my old Hard disk please. Old hard disk is recognised by BIOS but in Win 8.1 it does not show up in Control Panel devices or Disk Management.
 
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D_Know_WD
Hi there Donny88,

You man need to format it through the Command Prompt. Just be careful not to choose your SSD when listing the volumes. Here's the link: https://www.techhack.co.uk/2011/03/31/format-a-hard-drive-with-command-prompt/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD
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You may need to reinitialize the old HD(odd that you would have to). In control panel go to: admin tools, computer mgt, disk mgt, if the drive appears, right click on the drive and it should allow you to reinitialize the disk.
 
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Hi there Donny88,

You man need to format it through the Command Prompt. Just be careful not to choose your SSD when listing the volumes. Here's the link: https://www.techhack.co.uk/2011/03/31/format-a-hard-drive-with-command-prompt/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD
 
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Donny88

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I tested the above the HD is not appearing on the list, so I went in to Disk area in hardware/devices settings and I am now getting an error on IDE ATA / ATAPI controllers and what is worse is I have also lost the use of my DVD rom reader I checked driver updates and Windows is reporting I have the latest update. Do you think i need to resolve the IDE controller issue before going further?
 
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