Can't format a hard drive because it has windows on it

[damango789]

So I recently upgraded to an SSD, little late i know. I used a program called macrium to copy my entire operating system to the SSD. Worked perfectly and booted right up. Only problem I've ran into is that when I try to format the existing hard drive I can't because it still has the os on it. I should have used software to move instead of copy it. Every time I try to format the drive it treats it as if I'm trying to format my boot drive. Without the HDD in my PC it boots fine but I need storage. Is there any work around for this or a way to force it to format?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Use Gparted to remove ALL the existing paritions on the HDD. You will need to put Gparted on a flash drive or optical disk so you can boot to the Gparted program. I would recommend disconnecting the SSD while doing this so you don't accidentally delete any partitions off that drive.

Delete all the partitions off the HDD in Gparted, then you can create a new NTFS partition on the drive for use as storage. Power off, reconnect the SSD and good to go.

https://gparted.org/