[SOLVED] How to delete Cloned data

DacheZ

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Hi everyone, so I cloned my old hard drive to a new hard drive, I changed the new one to boot, everything is working fine, but now I have 2 Hard Drives with the same data, can somebody tell me how to delete everything on the old hard drive?
 
Solution
First verify, your system can boot with only new drive connected.
After that clean old drive, repartition and reformat it.
diskpart
list disk
select disk x
(Make sure, you select old disk. Data on selected disk will be lost.)​
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
exit

DacheZ

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"The clone" should just be a file or files on the other drive.
you should just be able to delete them as normal files.
I mean, I want to delete the original files, not the clone ones, I didn't express myself correctly. The cloned hard drive is the new one with the OS, I want to delete the old one. Can I just simply delete them?
 
First verify, your system can boot with only new drive connected.
After that clean old drive, repartition and reformat it.
diskpart
list disk
select disk x
(Make sure, you select old disk. Data on selected disk will be lost.)​
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
exit
 
Solution

DacheZ

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Mar 17, 2019
53
1
4,535
First verify, your system can boot with only new drive connected.
After that clean old drive, repartition and reformat it.
diskpart
list disk
select disk x
(Make sure, you select old disk. Data on selected disk will be lost.)​
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
exit
Thank you, I will try it now.
 

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