Win reinstallation to new drive

[tlustymen]

Hey guys, so recently I bought a new SSD. Right now I have 1 SSD with win 10 and some apps on it + 2 HDD with personal data etc. What exactly do I have to do, to reinstall windows from old SSD to the new one, without deleting anything on HDDs? So basically I have an empty old SSD and a new one just with win10. I have win 10 installation flash disk and the .exe file. Thank you

 

[Colif]

Yes. Haven't done anything with the old one yet. So if I clean out the old drive and format it again, it won't be split up? Since that is what I'm gonna do anyway...

If you format it, it deletes all the partitions. You will need to create a partition on it before you can use it again.

 

[tlustymen]

Well, hopefully, the last thing I have a problem is that even though I formatted the old SSD and deleted all its files, it is still detected as one of the 2 boot devices and shows these:
How should I clean the rest?

https://imgur.com/dmmxnet

 

[USAFRet]

Well, hopefully, the last thing I have a problem is that even though I formatted the old SSD and deleted all its files, it is still detected as one of the 2 boot devices and shows these:
How should I clean the rest?

https://imgur.com/dmmxnet

Just formatting the visible drive does not remove the original boot partitions.
You have to actually delete those partitions in Disk Management.
Right click, and DELETE.

 

[tlustymen]

I tried that, but I either have the option greyed out, or I don't have the option at all.

https://imgur.com/a/LplB7hh

https://imgur.com/a/06BlHKP

 

[USAFRet]

I tried that, but I either have the option greyed out, or I don't have the option at all.

https://imgur.com/a/LplB7hh

https://imgur.com/a/06BlHKP

Right.
You've verified that the system will boot without that drive connected?
If so, then you use the command line function diskpart and the /clean command on that drive, Disk 2.
That will wipe ALL of it, leaving one blank space.

Be absolutely sure of which drive you are addressing
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html

 

[tlustymen]

Yes, I can load win with the new ssd even when the old one is unplugged. But I already formated it and I can not log into it anymore. So is there a way to wipe it from the actual win ssd?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I can load win with the new ssd even when the old one is unplugged. But I already formated it and I can not log into it anymore. So is there a way to wipe it from the actual win ssd?

Not sure what you mean here.

The system is running from the new SSD?
Then what I listed above WILL work. The old drive gets wiped with the diskpart clean command.

 

[Colif]

Me again... how to run Dispkpart/clean from windows (you can't run inside windows though)

From desktop (booting from new ssd)
go to settings/update & security/recovery
under advanced startup, click restart now

That will restart PC in a blue menu
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt

type diskpart and press enter
type list disk and press enter
this shows all drives available, DVD/USB and hdd, make note of hdd number
type Select disk 2 and press enter
once the drive you want to wipe on is chosen, type Clean (try not to do this to C drive)
To get out, type exit twice

This wipes drive, will need to create partitions in disk management to use it again.

 

[tlustymen]

Okay, done, everything looks fine. Thank you very much for help guys with this week old thread. As you can see I'm not much of a pro with win 10s, so sorry for the frequent explaining.

 

[Colif]

We got there in the end. we can't all be experts, I know there is probably something you are good at that I am not.