wipe ssd and reinstall os on separate drive

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chodie_foster

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I currently have a single ssd in my pc for everything. i bought a second ssd that i would like to run just the os on, and wipe my current drive completely and use as a second drive for just media etc. ive already backed up all the data i want to keep to an external hd.

Im just not sure the best way to go about this, wipe ssd, then intall new ssd with os, then add old ssd after its been wiped. This i what i want, just just sure of the steps to take, any help is appreciated, thanks. If it helps, current drive is a samsung 850evo and i have windows 10.
 
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remove old ssd,
install new
install OS.

Only if all works you can add the old SSD and reformat.
If it does not work you can stil fall back to the old.

Is there any reason why you want the new one to be your boot disk?
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asoroka

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remove old ssd,
install new
install OS.

Only if all works you can add the old SSD and reformat.
If it does not work you can stil fall back to the old.

Is there any reason why you want the new one to be your boot disk?
 
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chodie_foster

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That sounds a lot simpler than I was making it to be lol, I think after reading forums I over complicated my thought process. As to why, after a Windows 10 update a while back, it created a new user and messed up all my paths and was a pain to access anything, none of the solutions I could find online fixed it, and it was awhile ago so I can’t revert back to old update. But I’m past that and don’t even want to try to fix that problem anymore. After reading around it sounds like some people prefer having os on a separate drive so if something like that happens, or anything else, all my media etc isn’t affected.
 
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