So I have a new computer, and I had an old computer that stopped working recently and nothing can be done about it so I decided to use the 1 terabyte nvme ssd in it to put it in my new pc, for more storage and for more faster storage than my hard drive. However, the old ssd has the old computers windows 10 operating system on it as well as some apps, so can windows still format the drive using the disk partition app thing so that I can delete everything in the drive and then have 1 tb of raw storage?
That shouldn't be a problem.
You should be able to do that from Windows Disk Management.
Or from Disk Part.
Or from a command prompt.
Lots of ways.
Windows Disk Management would be easiest.
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You'll want to fire up Disk Management and remove all of the partitions in the drive, as there will be a few due to being a boot drive, to ensure it's as fresh as you can get it.
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At worst, if the pc detects more than one boot drive with viable operating system, (like many ppl have Win10 and Win7 or Xp or Linux on a second drive,) it'll ask you which you want to boot before loading Windows.
Not much different to having multiple user accounts, you choose which to enable windows to open.
How to use DiskPart
Not much different to having multiple user accounts, you choose which to enable windows to open.
How to use DiskPart
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That only happens if you installed windows while the other OS was connected.
He has a new system, meaning no installation was made it came with windows 11, so adding the old ssd should not make a boot menu show up.
But if the new mobo is set up correctly it should have the nvme drive as the first boot drive and boot straight into win11 no matter what else you connect.
You can always press F11 or whatever your mobos equivalent is for the bios boot menu that lets you choose which drive to boot from.
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Hmm. Mine did. I added my old Sata Win7 boot drive to existing Windows 10 nvme pc to pull off documents. Gave me the option at every boot.
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Maybe because it booted from the old ssd that had the nvme drive added already.
The bcdstore is static, you have to use bootrec /rebuildbcd to add any boot options to it. (or manually add each one)
You could.................
But you shouldn't have to use Diskpart.
Disk Management should be able to delete any partition on the old drive as long as the PC is booted from the new drive.
Diskpart certainly works, but it can be confusing if you are not familiar with it. You don't want to "clean all" the wrong drive.
"Clean all" is necessary only under unusual circumstances. "Clean" should be sufficient if you want to use Diskpart at all.
I'm reasonably sure "clean" and "clean all" refer to the ENTIRE drive, not just this partition or that partition. You can't clean just one of the partitions. All or none.
IF you go to diskpart AND choose the RIGHT disk, you can use "clean" or "clean all" to wipe "everything" from the drive.
"Clean all" will take quite a bit longer.
Not just the Windows 10 operating system. Your tax returns, your cat pictures, and your movies will also be gone.
If you choose the wrong disk, you are in a bad situation.
But you don't need Diskpart to do that in a typical situation.
At Disk Management, you can delete individual partitions.
I think it's referred to as "delete volume" from the menus.
That space will then become "unallocated space".
You can then leave it as unallocated or add it to some other partition or create a new partition.
There's a just clean command? And about how much less longer will it take? I've known that clean all takes around 1 hour for every 320 gb. Also yes I agree they can be confusing between my 1 terabyte hard drive. I guess I will use disk management so that I can delete all partitions and windows 10. Thank you.
Ok i have added my nvme ssd, and everything seemed to go well. Partitions were deleted leaving me with 1 tb of fresh ssd memory. However, as i was checking disk management, I noticed that it was listed as disk 0. I did not think about it much at first and deleted the partitions and it was still disk 0. I didn't really care but got curious and googled it and it says that disk 0 is the main disk and the disk windows uses to boot, but it does not have an os. Should I worry about it? My main windows 11 os is on disk 1 for some reason.
My boot disc has been Disc 1 at times. No issues.
Post a pic of your Disk Management.
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Windows 10 installed to Disk 1 instead of Disk 0. Should I care?
Just like the title says, did a fresh install of Windows 10, and it correctly installed to the SSD and created a 500MB Reserved Partition, but it installed to Disk 1 instead of Disk 0, even though when I installed it, I chose Drive 0: http://imgur.com/a/5SZMO . So now, Disk 1 is the SSD with the...
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What Windows reports as "Disk 0", "Disk 1", etc. is the order the motherboard told the OS for each storage drive. It doesn't matter which one is the actual boot drive.
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My boot disc has been Disc 1 at times. No issues.
Post a pic of your Disk Management.
Windows 10 installed to Disk 1 instead of Disk 0. Should I care?
Just like the title says, did a fresh install of Windows 10, and it correctly installed to the SSD and created a 500MB Reserved Partition, but it installed to Disk 1 instead of Disk 0, even though when I installed it, I chose Drive 0: http://imgur.com/a/5SZMO . So now, Disk 1 is the SSD with the...
It doesn't matter...AS LONG AS THE BIOS IS SET UP CORRECTLY.
If you tell your bios to boot from disk 1 then there is no problem but if you leave everything default it might try to boot from disk 0 now that it exists.
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