When I built my first custom PC, I installed windows 7 ultimate on my 2TB seagate HDD. Though I did NOT partition the disk during installation. Regardless i did not bother with it at the time as there were no issues with its functioning. Now I bought an ADATA Premier Pro SP9000 256GB SSD.
1)How do I clean wipe the OS from my HDD since I forgot to partition it?
2)Do I need to reinstall OS in the SSD using the CD?
3)Do I need to re update all the OS files?
4)Do I need to have a complete wipe of the HDD and therefore need to re-update all the motherboard and graphic card apps and updates too?
5)Could I leave the HDD untouched and somehow wipe just the OS?
Data on HDD are some technical drawing software/games/movies/motherboard apps and drivers up to date/ gpu apps and drivers up to date. I would prefer a way to simply manage to wipe out the OS from the HDD and not have to clean all the data with it. Any help would be great.
PC specifications:-
CPU- Intel i7 4770k
GPU- Zotac Nvidia GTX 770 amp edition
MoBo- MSI Gaming 3 Z97
RAM- Kingston Hyper X fury 4x4GB
PSU- Corsair RM1000
CASE- CM HAF XB RC-902XB EVO
HDD- Seagate 2TB
new SSD- ADATA Premier Pro SP9000 256GB
1)How do I clean wipe the OS from my HDD since I forgot to partition it?
2)Do I need to reinstall OS in the SSD using the CD?
3)Do I need to re update all the OS files?
4)Do I need to have a complete wipe of the HDD and therefore need to re-update all the motherboard and graphic card apps and updates too?
5)Could I leave the HDD untouched and somehow wipe just the OS?
Data on HDD are some technical drawing software/games/movies/motherboard apps and drivers up to date/ gpu apps and drivers up to date. I would prefer a way to simply manage to wipe out the OS from the HDD and not have to clean all the data with it. Any help would be great.
PC specifications:-
CPU- Intel i7 4770k
GPU- Zotac Nvidia GTX 770 amp edition
MoBo- MSI Gaming 3 Z97
RAM- Kingston Hyper X fury 4x4GB
PSU- Corsair RM1000
CASE- CM HAF XB RC-902XB EVO
HDD- Seagate 2TB
new SSD- ADATA Premier Pro SP9000 256GB