Wiping HDD for storage

[mrgrunts]

Ok I installed some new upgrades to my PC and one of the upgrades was an 250GB SSD, After installing all my upgrades in my tower I left the SATA cable to my 1TB HDD unplugged and did a clean install to my SSD. Now that I am up and running with the SSD with my OS and all updates are done, I want to wipe my HDD and just use it for storage. My question is " HOW TO "? Like I said I just want to wipe it clean and set it up to be a storage drive for my games , movies, docs and so on. I just want to do it right

Let me know and thank you

Dennis

 

[manddy123]

It's quite simple actually,

With your PC turned off, re-plug your HDD into the SATA port of the mobo and on the HDD itself as well. ( Don't forget to plug in on the PSU too )

When you boot your PC again, it will be automatically detected as a external drive by your system.
Just right click on it and click to format it, just like you'd do to a USB.

After it's done, it will be clean to use as you wish.
Just make sure to get anything you might want from it out of it before the formatting.

 

[mrgrunts]

It's quite simple actually,

With your PC turned off, re-plug your HDD into the SATA port of the mobo and on the HDD itself as well. ( Don't forget to plug in on the PSU too )

When you boot your PC again, it will be automatically detected as a external drive by your system.
Just right click on it and click to format it, just like you'd do to a USB.

After it's done, it will be clean to use as you wish.
Just make sure to get anything you might want from it out of it before the formatting.

Thank you, worked like a charm