Making a pimary hhd into a secondary

[Derick0]

so i have an old hdd (from my laptop) that i wanna use as a secondary hard drive for my new pc, as for my new pc im using a ssd as the primary. How do i do it? all ive done is connected the hdd to power supply and motherboard

 

[DRagor]

Make sure the BIOS sees it. Then make sure Boot order is set to SSD first. Then go to Windows and either it will see the drive instantly, or you have to activate it in Disk Management.

 

[Derick0]

Make sure the BIOS sees it. Then make sure Boot order is set to SSD first. Then go to Windows and either it will see the drive instantly, or you have to activate it in Disk Management.

how do i activate it in disk management?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Ignore comment about activation. That would be necessary only, if you wanted to boot from HDD.

You have to assign drive letter to partitions on HDD. If there are no partitions, you'd have to make them first.
If there are partitions already and you just want to use it for storage, then maybe format those partitions (if there are no important files left).

 

[Derick0]

Ignore comment about activation. That would be necessary only, if you wanted to boot from HDD.

You have to assign drive letter to partitions on HDD. If there are no partitions, you'd have to make them first.
If there are partitions already and you just want to use it for storage, then maybe format those partitions (if there are no important files left).

there are 2 paritions one is a primary parition and the other with 351mb allocated space, i cant delete teh 351mb parition. What do i do? {to use it as secondary storage)

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management? (upload to imgur.com or tinypic.com)

Do you have any important data on those HDD partitions?
If yes - then copy important data elsewhere and format large partition.

Ignore the small one. To delete that one you'd need to use diskpart utility.

 

[Derick0]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management? (upload to imgur.com or tinypic.com)

Do you have any important data on those HDD partitions?
If yes - then copy important data elsewhere and format large partition.

Ignore the small one. To delete that one you'd need to use diskpart utility.

i was able to do it. this is what it should look like right? https://imgur.com/a/A4gsC ( C: is my ssd and D: is my hdd/secondary storage)

 

[SkyNetRising]

HDD looks good there.

But your SSD is almost full. SSD looses performance significantly and wears out more quickly, if you allow it to get full.
Would suggest keeping at least 10% of SSD unused.