How to format a SSD with no operating system

[marshy203]

i have just bought a new pc second hand and it came with a hdd and 2 ssds, the ssds had windows 8 pre installed on them, i am getting an issue to do with the pc not being able to find the proper boot drive with the os on it.

i was wondering how i would go about turning the two ssds which are in raid 0 or at least were, back to two separate drives, for me to the install a new operating system on, they are partitioned and i dont know how to format them, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... do it in another computer, or use a Windows Boot Disk to delete the partition on it.

 

[marshy203]

Hello... do it in another computer, or use a Windows Boot Disk to delete the partition on it.

ok thanks, do you know anything about the boot device not found error?

 

[ahnilated]

The device that is setup in the bios as the first boot device doesn't have an OS on it. That is why you are getting that error. You could get a CD or DVD that has the ability to format the drives too. Hirens is a good one and most Linux discs will allow you to format drives with them.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... when your Bio's is started it will look for an OS or Command and files to start reading from "Boot DEVICE"... A "DEVICE" can be a hardrive, USB stick, CD/DVD... A Windows DISK has one... BUT... You must tell your BIO's where to start looking for it FIRST!!! There is settings to look first at your CD/DVD, the Windows Disk, in your BIO's, and you must save and exit the BIO's for the changes to be installed.