Using Satellitee Box SSD on PC

[Hebridean]

I no longer use my satellite box and would like to reuse the two SSD's I have on my PC.

It it Possible to wipe or format the SSD's so windows will accept them.

[adm]

I no longer use my satellite box and would like to reuse the two SSD's I have on my PC.

It it Possible to wipe or format the SSD's so windows will accept them.

Have the SSDs been internal or external to your box? Have they been formatted to ext4?
Is you PC running windows?

Assuming a PC running windows, and possibly a SSD foramatted as ext4 ......

Put the SSD in a USB caddy (unless it is already connected via USB) and plug it into a usb port on your PC

First check that Windows File Explorer can see it. If it can then just reformat it. If it can't ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlE60EYDZjA

Then use method 1 in this youtube video

In the video the instruction "format fs=fat32" can be changed to "format fs=fat32 fast" or or "format fs=ntfs fast" which saves a lot of time (possibly very many hours) for formatting


Random example caddy @ around £4 from Ebay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266419459958

[Hebridean]

Thank you, for your most helpful post.