How to delete all data on an old ssd for use in a new build?

Chrislayerlol

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I hope this isn't a dumb question, but a few months ago I upgraded from a 120 GB SSD to a 500 GB one, leaving the old drive spare. Tomorrow I'll be building a new computer for my friend, and currently it will only have a 2 TB hard drive. I only just remembered about the old SSD and was wondering how I would go about deleting all the data from it so he could use it as a boot disk in his new computer.
The drive still has all the data on it from before I upgraded, including windows.
Could I just plug it in at the front of my computer via my usb to sata connector and do a quick format on the ssd in the drive management utility of windows, or is there more to it than that?
 

Chrislayerlol

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Thanks, but looking at the drive in disk management there is a 7.81GB system partition and the rest of the ssd's capacity on another partition. I have formatted the larger partition and the drive now shows as 103 GB/103 GB free in my computer, do I have to format the system partition as well or should I leave that be?