https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/Do-I-need-to-reinstall-Win10-or-format-HDD-for-Intel-Optane/m-p/677904#M4911 <P>1. You don't need to reinstall your Windows or reformat your drive in order to accelerate your secondary drive. Your HDD should have GPT partition. If not convert it to GPT from administrator Command Prompt, using mbr2gpt function.</P><P>2. Just follow this guide: <A href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf" target="_self" alt="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf"></A><A href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf">https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Leon</P> Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:41:27 GMT LeonWaksman 2019-06-29T01:41:27Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/Do-I-need-to-reinstall-Win10-or-format-HDD-for-Intel-Optane/m-p/677903#M4910 <P>I got a 16G optane memory from my friend, thinking about adding it to current system for HDD.</P><P>Now I am using one m.2 nvme ssd as boot/system disk and one HDD for other data</P><P>Do I need to reinstall windows 10 in m.2 ssd or format HDD for optane memory? Thank you!</P><P>​</P> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:26:17 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/Do-I-need-to-reinstall-Win10-or-format-HDD-for-Intel-Optane/m-p/677903#M4910 CTang20 2019-06-28T23:26:17Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/Do-I-need-to-reinstall-Win10-or-format-HDD-for-Intel-Optane/m-p/677904#M4911 <P>1. You don't need to reinstall your Windows or reformat your drive in order to accelerate your secondary drive. Your HDD should have GPT partition. If not convert it to GPT from administrator Command Prompt, using mbr2gpt function.</P><P>2. Just follow this guide: <A href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf" target="_self" alt="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf"></A><A href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf">https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Leon</P> Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:41:27 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/Do-I-need-to-reinstall-Win10-or-format-HDD-for-Intel-Optane/m-p/677904#M4911 LeonWaksman 2019-06-29T01:41:27Z