Old Hard Drive New Pc

Dinoo

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Old hdd has Windows Xp wanting to delete it completely to install Windows 10 on that. How would I be able to do that? This drive will be used as the main hard drive.
 

Boot from windows 10 installation media;
go to command prompt;
use diskpart to clean the drive:
  • diskpart
    list disk
    select disk x (x - number of your drive from previous command)
    clean
    exit
Reboot again and install windows on to clean drive.
 

Dinoo

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Feb 17, 2014
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Would I need to install Windows 10 on the hard drive first or can I install Windows 10 on a Usb drive then install windows 10 to the pc and plop the hard drive in