Bought at used SSD, it has and E and F drive

[Myusername468]

So, I bought a used SSD as a Christmas present to myself. I installed it and when I got to my "This PC" screen on my computer, I noticed a E: System Reserved drive as well as my F: drive. In task manager it says Disk 1 is E: and F:. I did some research and it says that the E: drive is caused by having windows on more than one drive. Yet I only have windows installed on my C: drive. The E: drive is empty when I open it but says 483mb free out of 498mb. Anyone know the cause of this?

 

[Alabalcho]

"Used" - someone removed it from his laptop, formatted all partitions, and gave it to you.
Just delete all partitions from it with "Disk Manager". You can do that during Windows installation (if this is going to be your system drive).

 

[hang-the-9]

So, I bought a used SSD as a Christmas present to myself. I installed it and when I got to my "This PC" screen on my computer, I noticed a E: System Reserved drive as well as my F: drive. In task manager it says Disk 1 is E: and F:. I did some research and it says that the E: drive is caused by having windows on more than one drive. Yet I only have windows installed on my C: drive. The E: drive is empty when I open it but says 483mb free out of 498mb. Anyone know the cause of this?

System reserved is a normal partition created during Windows setup.

Did you actually install Windows clean on that SSD? Did you delete the partitions when you installed the drive if you did?

 

[USAFRet]

For any used drive or system, your very first move should be to wipe the drive completely.

 

[Myusername468]

So, I bought a used SSD as a Christmas present to myself. I installed it and when I got to my "This PC" screen on my computer, I noticed a E: System Reserved drive as well as my F: drive. In task manager it says Disk 1 is E: and F:. I did some research and it says that the E: drive is caused by having windows on more than one drive. Yet I only have windows installed on my C: drive. The E: drive is empty when I open it but says 483mb free out of 498mb. Anyone know the cause of this?

System reserved is a normal partition created during Windows setup.

Did you actually install Windows clean on that SSD? Did you delete the partitions when you installed the drive if you did?

No, I didn't.

 

[hang-the-9]

So, I bought a used SSD as a Christmas present to myself. I installed it and when I got to my "This PC" screen on my computer, I noticed a E: System Reserved drive as well as my F: drive. In task manager it says Disk 1 is E: and F:. I did some research and it says that the E: drive is caused by having windows on more than one drive. Yet I only have windows installed on my C: drive. The E: drive is empty when I open it but says 483mb free out of 498mb. Anyone know the cause of this?

System reserved is a normal partition created during Windows setup.

Did you actually install Windows clean on that SSD? Did you delete the partitions when you installed the drive if you did?

No, I didn't.

You don't want to be using someone else's Windows setup, re-install Windows clean on that drive.

 

[Myusername468]

So, I bought a used SSD as a Christmas present to myself. I installed it and when I got to my "This PC" screen on my computer, I noticed a E: System Reserved drive as well as my F: drive. In task manager it says Disk 1 is E: and F:. I did some research and it says that the E: drive is caused by having windows on more than one drive. Yet I only have windows installed on my C: drive. The E: drive is empty when I open it but says 483mb free out of 498mb. Anyone know the cause of this?

System reserved is a normal partition created during Windows setup.

Did you actually install Windows clean on that SSD? Did you delete the partitions when you installed the drive if you did?

No, I didn't.

You don't want to be using someone else's Windows setup, re-install Windows clean on that drive.

It's not my boot drive.

 

[hang-the-9]

If it's not the boot drive just wipe the thing if you don't want those other partitions on it. Unless you had it in the system while you installed Windows, then it may have put system files on the drive and you don't want to wipe it then.

 

[Myusername468]

If it's not the boot drive just wipe the thing if you don't want those other partitions on it. Unless you had it in the system while you installed Windows, then it may have put system files on the drive and you don't want to wipe it then.[/

You mean wipe the e drive or the whole thing?

 

[hang-the-9]

Yes the whole drive, you don't need any existing files on there if you are getting it ready for your use, just delete all the partitions in disk manager and create a new single partition.

 

[Myusername468]

Yes the whole drive, you don't need any existing files on there if you are getting it ready for your use, just delete all the partitions in disk manager and create a new single partition.

I put * stuff on it already

 

[USAFRet]

Yes the whole drive, you don't need any existing files on there if you are getting it ready for your use, just delete all the partitions in disk manager and create a new single partition.

I put * stuff on it already

So move that stuff off, wipe the drive, and start over.