What to format?

[drasko111]

So I just installed windows on a new 250gb ssd from a bootable usb stick and now I plugged my old 1TB hdd back in to format it and I see to much stuff in the disk manager...
How to format it and which one of these :S

Just wanna be safe and not mess up because during win10 installation it created beside my primary partition 3 other...one was 500mb for system, one was 100mb and a third 16mb, so I don't want to delete/format any of them now...

https://imgur.com/UqutafR

Edit: Can right click with the option to delete/format only on C: F: and the last on the image system reserviert D:
Right clicking others does not give any option except "Help"

I guess I just need to Format F: and all others tied to the hdd will disappear too? Quick format or slow?

 

[USAFRet]

So I just installed windows on a new 250gb ssd from a bootable usb stick and now I plugged my old 1TB hdd back in to format it and I see to much stuff in the disk manager...
How to format it and which one of these :S

Just wanna be safe and not mess up because during win10 installation it created beside my primary partition 3 other...one was 500mb for system, one was 100mb and a third 16mb, so I don't want to delete/format any of them now...

https://imgur.com/UqutafR

Can only right click with the option to delete/format only on C: F: and the last on the image system reserviert D:

I guess I just need to Format F: and all others will disappear to? Quick format or slow?

No, just formatting the F does not get rid of all those other partitions.
Right click on each space, and see what options it gives you.

 

[USAFRet]

And we are assuming that Disk 0 is the old one? The 1TB?
Do NOT do anything with Disk 1, the 250GB (223GB) drive.

 

[drasko111]

And we are assuming that Disk 0 is the old one? The 1TB?
Do NOT do anything with Disk 1, the 250GB (223GB) drive.

Ye disk 1 is the SSD...what wonders me is the that last partition that showed up "System Reserviert D:" after plugging the hdd back in...its the 500 mb reserved sys files from the hdd and it even shows up in "My computer" right under C: and F: as another disk...

scared to delete it because in another thread I saw someone do it and it broke the hdd :S

 

[USAFRet]

And we are assuming that Disk 0 is the old one? The 1TB?
Do NOT do anything with Disk 1, the 250GB (223GB) drive.

Ye disk 1 is the SSD...what wonders me is the that last partition that showed up "System Reserviert D:" after plugging the hdd back in...its the 500 mb reserved sys files from the hdd and it even shows up in "My computer" right under C: and F: as another disk...

scared to delete it because in another thread I saw someone do it and it broke the hdd :S

So then you test.
Power off
Unplug the HDD
Power up.
Does it boot properly from only the SSD?
If so, you're good.
Delete it off the HDD. The SSD has its own boot partition.

 

[drasko111]

And we are assuming that Disk 0 is the old one? The 1TB?
Do NOT do anything with Disk 1, the 250GB (223GB) drive.

Ye disk 1 is the SSD...what wonders me is the that last partition that showed up "System Reserviert D:" after plugging the hdd back in...its the 500 mb reserved sys files from the hdd and it even shows up in "My computer" right under C: and F: as another disk...

scared to delete it because in another thread I saw someone do it and it broke the hdd :S

So then you test.
Power off
Unplug the HDD
Power up.
Does it boot properly from only the SSD?
If so, you're good.
Delete it off the HDD. The SSD has its own boot partition.

It does boot without problems because during windows 10 installation the HDD was disconnected and I used only the SSD for some time to install all drivers and update windows.
Then I plugged the hdd back in and the F: and D: showed up which you can see on the pic.

 

[USAFRet]

It does boot without problems because during windows 10 installation the HDD was disconnected and I used only the SSD for some time to install all drivers and update windows.
Then I plugged the hdd back in and the F: and D: showed up which you can see on the pic.

OK then.
Right click on each space on that drive.
What options does it give you?
Delete Volume, possibly?

 

[drasko111]

It does boot without problems because during windows 10 installation the HDD was disconnected and I used only the SSD for some time to install all drivers and update windows.
Then I plugged the hdd back in and the F: and D: showed up which you can see on the pic.

OK then.
Right click on each space on that drive.
What options does it give you?
Delete Volume, possibly?

From the 4 partitions on disk 0 I can right click on 3 of them which gives me the options to delete, format etc.
The third partition the the pic under disk 0 called "466mb Healthy (Recovery partition)" does not give any option even tho it shows 100% free space...nothing there.

 

[USAFRet]

From the 4 partitions on disk 0 I can right click on 3 of them which gives me the options to delete, format etc.
The third partition the the pic under disk 0 called "466mb Healthy (Recovery partition)" does not give any option even tho it shows 100% free space...nothing there.

As suspected.
That particular partition will need to be killed off using diskpart at the commandline.
Or, you can wipe the entire disk all at once with diskpart, using the clean command.
And then reformat it as one large space.

In diskpart, you have to be REALLY careful as to what drive you are accessing.
Do it wrong, and you can kill off your existing OS drive.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)

 

[madmatt30]

^ becaue it was originally a boot drive - you can remove this manually afterwards if you wish

Delete every partition from drive 0

Right click on the aingle partition thats left when youve done this , create primary partition - will automatically select full size.

Then format this & give it a drive letter.

 

[drasko111]

From the 4 partitions on disk 0 I can right click on 3 of them which gives me the options to delete, format etc.
The third partition the the pic under disk 0 called "466mb Healthy (Recovery partition)" does not give any option even tho it shows 100% free space...nothing there.

As suspected.
That particular partition will need to be killed off using diskpart at the commandline.
Or, you can wipe the entire disk all at once with diskpart, using the clean command.
And then reformat it as one large space.

In diskpart, you have to be REALLY careful as to what drive you are accessing.
Do it wrong, and you can kill off your existing OS drive.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)

So i deleted 3 of the 4 partitions on disk 0 and then i used cmd diskpart, selected disk 0 and used "Clean" after that the partition was gone and only unallocated space left.
Then i initialized the disk using MBR and created 2 new volumes(partitions) .

Everything working. Thx for the help 😀