How to delete all data on an old ssd for use in a new build?

Chrislayerlol

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I hope this isn't a dumb question, but a few months ago I upgraded from a 120 GB SSD to a 500 GB one, leaving the old drive spare. Tomorrow I'll be building a new computer for my friend, and currently it will only have a 2 TB hard drive. I only just remembered about the old SSD and was wondering how I would go about deleting all the data from it so he could use it as a boot disk in his new computer.
The drive still has all the data on it from before I upgraded, including windows.
Could I just plug it in at the front of my computer via my usb to sata connector and do a quick format on the ssd in the drive management utility of windows, or is there more to it than that?
 


Thanks, but looking at the drive in disk management there is a 7.81GB system partition and the rest of the ssd's capacity on another partition. I have formatted the larger partition and the drive now shows as 103 GB/103 GB free in my computer, do I have to format the system partition as well or should I leave that be?