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Csmith339

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hi I recently bought two ssds and I freshly installed windows 8 on one of the ssds and completely deleted my original hdd including windows. I went into the bios and it said next to my boot ssd windows boot manager which is normal. then I looked at the hdd that I completely erased and it said windows boot manager underneath it as well? I was wondering why this is happening and can it cause any problems? I look at the hdd and there is nothing on it why is it still saying windows boot manager? please help thank!!!
 
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Pinhedd

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The Windows Boot Manager is a 100MB EFI System Partition (which is basically just FAT32) that contains the UEFI boot targets. This volume is not assigned a drive letter in Windows (although it can be) but it will show up on a partition map.

If the contents of the disk are of no further use to you, you can zero it out using the ATA secure erase command. Many recovery and maintenance programs support this, including DBAN and PartedMagic.
 
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Hello... 1) I installl the OS on the SSD without 2nd SSD or HD's or previous OS visable to the NEW OS install.
2) Once the NEW OS install is Happy with all the proper hardware drivers, I connect 2nd SSD or HD's, ( mark partitions Active ).
3) I delete the Partitions on that 2nd SSD or HD and create a NEW one... and Format it.
4) Create directories Programs files and Program files (x86) on the Clean 2nd SSD or HD.
 
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Jonas Magnusson

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^^that's win7 size, win8 has 350mb i think.
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Only have the bootable ssd pluged in when you boot. When you get to the desktop search disk manager, diskmgmt.msc for short. Delete everything on the HDD not SSD, if you're gonna use it as extra storage.
 
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Windows 8 has a 100MB EFI System Partition and a 300MB recovery partition. You raise a good point though,

OP if you could please post a screenshot of the contents of Disk Management that would be great mkay. Right click on the start-menu icon and select "Disk Management"
 
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