Just put a new SSD in a machine and want to use the old system disc for storage

Went to disc management and deleted the main block but can’t get rid of the 2 little reserved ones (“recovery” and “EFI system partition”)

Is there a way to do this that a barely-trained chimp could achieve ?

(I do know what command line is and I could run it in windows, but I would be a bit scared)

QUICK – stop me !
(I’ve been googling diskpart)

Install windows, make sure you have everything on it. From inside windows go to disk management (Right click my computer then manage then discs. then right click the second and format it.

Should be some online guides under format drive

If you can install windows without having that disk connected, I would.

You may end up like me with the MBT on the HDD, and the OS on the SSD.

Thus I have to wait a few seconds for the HDD to spin up, just for it to retrieve the message to boot from the other disk 🙂

Format it with GParted afterwards using an Ubuntu .iso

gfs – I did install windows with just 1 disc (blimey, I must be clever !)

mws – won’t let me do anything from disc mgt

As gfs says, use a live linux distro to reformat disk with gparted (can use other tools, but that’s probably easiest for somebody not used to linux).

in that case find someone who can come round and do it for you.

mikewsmith – Member
in that case find someone who can come round and do it for you

😆
found diskpart instead – thanks for all your help though