Added old hardrive to new pc with a hardrive

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So I just added another hardrive to my new pc to add space. I used sata connector and I booted it up. Windows started fine and in the computer section is said it had 232 gb of storage instead of 150 before. So That was fine. But when I looked at the free storage it was about the same. The hardrive had some old data on it I assume. Is there a way I can remove it or wipe it easily? Thanks

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I have wiped the hard drive. It still is the same. It says 232gb of storage. 30gb of storage free just like before?
 
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What are you looking at exactly?
How did you wipe it?
Did you empty the recycle bin?


If you are looking at your C drive, adding another drive does nothing the increase the amount of free space on drive C. If you have 50 gb out of 250 gb free on drive C and a empty 500 gb hard drive on drive d, adding drive d is still going to show 50gb free on drive c.

If you just "deleted" the files not formatted the second drive, then the files are still in the recycle bin and it wont show any freed up space until you empty the recycle bin.
In al reality though if you want the drive completely empty clean then you need to format it.
 
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