Soldato
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I moved the hard drive from my old PC into my new build.
I already have a SSD boot drive, and a 1tb spinpoint F3 for storage.
The old drive is 150gb, and I would ideally like to use it as extra storage/backup.
For example last week I had a bit of a scare that my Spinpoint was failing and windows told me to back up my files - only I couldnt because I didn't have the anything to move stuff onto.
The old hard drive is about 80% full, probably mostly of unimportant stuff. Therefore I was thinking I should pull anything important off it and then format it.
Is formatting the best way to clean up a hard drive? if so how do i go about it, I have never done it before?
I already have a SSD boot drive, and a 1tb spinpoint F3 for storage.
The old drive is 150gb, and I would ideally like to use it as extra storage/backup.
For example last week I had a bit of a scare that my Spinpoint was failing and windows told me to back up my files - only I couldnt because I didn't have the anything to move stuff onto.
The old hard drive is about 80% full, probably mostly of unimportant stuff. Therefore I was thinking I should pull anything important off it and then format it.
Is formatting the best way to clean up a hard drive? if so how do i go about it, I have never done it before?
