Solved Unknown, Not Initialized

"There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers" and "it's better to ask a stupid question and feel stupid for 5 seconds, than to not asking a stupid question and be stupid for the rest of your life"

With that in mind, I need some advice

When I put together my new build for Win11, I left 1 or 2 files I needed from my Win10 OS SSD.
So I put the SSD into my tower (It was moved onto an external cable, but not before creating havoc amongst my other partitions when I had to use Macrium to restore.

Everything is now as it should be within my desktop, and just to make sure it can never happen again I have deleted the Win10 OS. I was going to use it to clone my Win11 and or just leave it empty and away from my tower.
Either way I don't need it or want it anywhere near my tower.

However, now when I open diskmgmt, whether or not the SSD is plugged in, I am getting an initialization popup and something like this


My question is do I initialize the disk as GPT and leave the disk empty and/or initialize it and then maybe clone my C:\

I would definitely initialize it as GPT, then format it as Primary, NTFS, default cluster size... and see what Disk Management says then.

Ghot said:

I would definitely initialize it as GPT, then format it as Primary, NTFS, default cluster size... and see what Disk Management says then.

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Problem solved, thank you very much

Fiery said:

Problem solved, thank you very much

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Good job.