Not so fascinating questions about ssd that needs quick answers

[Noon6]

Hello I have this kind of confusion and some enlightening will be taken as a big help. You see, I bought a second hand solid state drive from a friend. After I got home, I immediately plug the drive to my pc i'm currently building. What was I expecting to? I don't know because it's the first time I got a drive to work (It's the first time i'm building because all of my pc are prebuilt) let alone a solid state drive. At first, of course it booted then I know somewhat that it would show some kind of error about some os. But, to my surprise it booted to a genuine windows 10 pro. I remembered that my friend said to me that there is an os inside it and I should delete it. My question is, first, is this what expected to happen from an ssd with an os? (Because someone told me you need to contact microsoft before upgrading your hardwares because of compatability. because when I tried to use a hdd from a laptop with is it didn't work). Second, how do I delete an OS? (Because when I use the ssd I get some errors when I open the documents, pictures, music folders etc. Errors like D/music is unavailable. If the location is unavailable bla bla)

Please help Tom!

 

[Paul NZ]

You can put a hdd with an OS on another system. But dont count on it being stable. It can cause probs including crashing

Because of the differences in the chipsets and drivers on the different systems. You'll have to buy windows if you want to use it. Then boot from the dvd, then wipe the hdd then reinstall windows on it

 

[USAFRet]

Hello I have this kind of confusion and some enlightening will be taken as a big help. You see, I bought a second hand solid state drive from a friend. After I got home, I immediately plug the drive to my pc i'm currently building. What was I expecting to? I don't know because it's the first time I got a drive to work (It's the first time i'm building because all of my pc are prebuilt) let alone a solid state drive. At first, of course it booted then I know somewhat that it would show some kind of error about some os. But, to my surprise it booted to a genuine windows 10 pro. I remembered that my friend said to me that there is an os inside it and I should delete it. My question is, first, is this what expected to happen from an ssd with an os? (Because someone told me you need to contact microsoft before upgrading your hardwares because of compatability. because when I tried to use a hdd from a laptop with is it didn't work). Second, how do I delete an OS? (Because when I use the ssd I get some errors when I open the documents, pictures, music folders etc. Errors like D/music is unavailable. If the location is unavailable bla bla)

Please help Tom!

Yes, sometimes a drive with an OS on it will boot in a whole new system. Has nothing to do with being an SSD or otherwise.

But that is only part of the issue.

Is this the only drive with an OS in this system?
You really need to do a fresh install. You have no idea where this OS came from (where did your friend get it?)
Do you have a valid, unused license key?

If so, do a complete wipe and reinstall.

 

[bobmanuk]

Hello I have this kind of confusion and some enlightening will be taken as a big help. You see, I bought a second hand solid state drive from a friend. After I got home, I immediately plug the drive to my pc i'm currently building. What was I expecting to? I don't know because it's the first time I got a drive to work (It's the first time i'm building because all of my pc are prebuilt) let alone a solid state drive. At first, of course it booted then I know somewhat that it would show some kind of error about some os. But, to my surprise it booted to a genuine windows 10 pro. I remembered that my friend said to me that there is an os inside it and I should delete it. My question is, first, is this what expected to happen from an ssd with an os? (Because someone told me you need to contact microsoft before upgrading your hardwares because of compatability. because when I tried to use a hdd from a laptop with is it didn't work). Second, how do I delete an OS? (Because when I use the ssd I get some errors when I open the documents, pictures, music folders etc. Errors like D/music is unavailable. If the location is unavailable bla bla)

Please help Tom!

You can get a copy of windows 10 from microsoft's website and put it on a USB or DVD if you want, you can boot the USB or DVD, choose from all the options and when you get to choosing a drive to install windows onto, you delete all the partitions from the drive. then press next, windows install will create all the necessary partitions you need and will continue on its own.

the problem here is that you wont have a fully activated copy of windows, it will be fully functional for (i think) 30 days but certain things will be restricted until you activate windows.

 

[USAFRet]

the problem here is that you wont have a fully activated copy of windows, it will be fully functional for (i think) 30 days but certain things will be restricted until you activate windows.

I don't think there is a specific 30 day thing, like there used to be with Win 8 and earlier.
It bugs you to activate from Day 1, and several things are restricted.

I'm in day 3 of a long term test to see if this oft mentioned "30 day" is actually true.
Running Win 10 Pro in a VirtualBox VM, just to see what happens.

 

[Noon6]

Ok so I can't use this os because it would crash alot? So, I need to make a usb bootable drive of windows 10. I'll just plug the usb then make it boot at the bios then install windows 10? How do I format this ssd?

 

[madmatt30]

You will get the option to format when you boot the windows install flash drive/DVD.

USAFRet - there is no 30 day restriction on win 10, I know someone who's been running it unregistered for 4 months+

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so I can't use this os because it would crash alot? So, I need to make a usb bootable drive of windows 10. I'll just plug the usb then make it boot at the bios then install windows 10? How do I format this ssd?

Yes, you need to reinstall the OS for multiple reasons.

Purchase your Win 10 Home.Newegg, Amazon, Microcenter, BestBuy....
Make your USB with the Media Creation Tool:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

Disconnect any other drives.
Boot from that USB
When it asks 'where', select all existing partitions, Delete. Leaving one large space.
Let Windows install to that, creating what it needs.

 

[Noon6]

What kind of reasons? if not a bother

 

[Paul NZ]

I told you one it'll probably crash. None of the drivers on the hdd are for your system. The chipset on your system wont be the same as what that hdd came out of

And like you said in the 1st post, you get errors

 

[USAFRet]

What kind of reasons? if not a bother

1. Whole different system. Stability may be lacking.
2. The errors you're already seeing.
3. Where did this OS come from? Is your friend a really nice guy, and gave you a $130+ OS for free? Doubtful.

 

[Noon6]

Then why'd it worked in the first place?

I dont know if its genuine. It has some product id and keys though

 

[USAFRet]

Then why'd it worked in the first place?

Luck of the draw.
With changing hardware, Win 10 is better than Win 8 is better than Win 7.

Just booting up is one thing. Is it actually delivering 100% performance with this new hardware? Unknown.
Do a full reinstall and know it is working, rather than finding some issue a month from now.


And if you don't know it is genuine and unused, assume it isn't.

 

[Paul NZ]

It'll still work because it'll detect the hardware then install the drivers. But it'll still have the chipset drivers from the old system on it. And now it's got the old drivers for the other hardware as well as the hardware in your system.

Just because it works now, it doesnt mean it'll stay like that forever. You can still have probs and crashes later

 

[USAFRet]

You will get the option to format when you boot the windows install flash drive/DVD.

USAFRet - there is no 30 day restriction on win 10, I know someone who's been running it unregistered for 4 months+

Right.
This is just for my own edification.

 

[Noon6]

Thank you all guys for answering. I wish I could pick you all as best solution but i've chosen Usafret because he's such a nice person. Answering all my questions and not getting bothered about it. Nights.

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you all guys for answering. I wish I could pick you all as best solution but i've chosen Usafret because he's such a nice person. Answering all my questions and not getting bothered about it. Nights.

Good luck.
And if you have any other questions or run into any issues, don't hesitate to ask again.