[SOLVED] Difference between resetting and deleting a partition/volume

namirai

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(Sorry if i am using the wrong terms)
I have a "Kingston SSD A400 Solid State Drive (2.5 Inch SATA 3), 120 GB" (that i bought) and a 1 TB Harddrive (from my old pc, i don't know what it is specifically). I wanna reset my pc, but what if i just delete the partition in disk management? Is it the same?
All i wanna do is empty my HDD because i forgot to do that when i built my pc. (My old pc used only the 1 TB hard drive so it basically still has windows 10 and my old accounts from my old pc...)
 
Solution
if it boots correctly with the old drive disconnected, you should be able to delete partition(s) on that drive within disk management, then right click, reformat