Windows 10: I have two hard drives in my laptop, SSD and HDD. I want to format Windows on my SSD and...

I have two hard drives in my laptop, SSD and HDD. I want to format Windows on my SSD and delete all files and documents from it, leaving only Windows. I want the HDD to remain unchanged, so that all documents remain on it after formatting the SSD. I have windows 10 pro

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Confused about hard drives: HDD and SSD

Browsing through the Microsoft Store for a new pc, I see various hard drives listed, such as:

16GB eMMC

32GB eMMC

500GB 5400 RPM HDD

2GB DDR3L 1600 MHz

32GB SSD [?]

64GB SSD

I understand that solid state drives are good, though expensive. What I don't understand is what size of an SSD would be the equivalent of, say, a terabyte HD? It seems that 64GB is the largest SSD offered here. What size HDD would equal that capacity?

And, BTW, what is an eMMC?

 

Format SSD drive or any drive

Hi Thomas

Think of a hard drive or SSD as a book . . .

A Quick Format basically deletes the contents page (File Allocation Table), whereas a Long Format will also delete all the pages (Files)

If a quick format is taking 2 hours on your SSD and you are experiencing problems with Windows, when only performing a Quick Format, then I would suggest the formatting operation is not the problem, most likely that SSD has a problem. A Quick format on that
drive, should take approx. 10 minutes . . .

 

Windows detects SSD drive as HDD

Hello, i have three disks in my PC

C: M.2 1TB SSD (windows drive)

D: 1TB HDD

E: M.2 1TB SSD

i freshly installed windows 11 pro, in task manager the only disk showing up as a SSD is my windows drive. the two other drives as HDD

i unplugged my HDD and formatted my E: disk again. then with only SSD drives running both shows up as SSD and it works, but as soon as i plugged the HDD back in and formatted it again, my E: (SSD) changed to HDD.

i have also benchmarked the Write speeds and my E: caps at the same speed as my HDD (260mb/s~) and it supposed to be at 3500 mb/s

help