Not as hard as you may think. A lot of new HD's, when you plug them in for the very first time, will either take you to or tell you how to open the computer's Administrative Tools, to set up the new HD. Will it be in a RAID configuration, or whatever. During all this you can tell it to make any partitions you want, and what size you want them, and what drive letters you want them to have. If you don't specify drive letters, it will automatically just make them the next in order. D:, E:, F:, and so on. Once all this fun is over, it will then format the new HD, which is where all the deletion of any and all data on it will occur. Then, the HD is usable.
Formatting is a pretty good way, BTW, of getting rid of, permanently, any data you want to vanish. Unlike "erasing" things with a standard "delete" command, which leaves the data on the HD, just changes the first character of the file's name to a "?". That's how the forensic and tech types can "get back" erased items. They go in, find the "erased" file, and change the first character back to something, like an A or whatever. Formatting actually removes files from the HD, permanently.
You can also format manually, by opening a DOS window, and typing in Format (drive letter). Like Format D:\. However, it will totally wipe the entire drive. To wipe a single file, or sets of files, use a piece of software, like Norton's Wipefile. They can erase the file, and then over-write it's data with ones and zero's. It fits DOD requirements for data deletion.
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Bubbado:
That's a pretty good system, no question. If it were me, which it's not, I would see about a faster CPU, but that one's not bad.
Bear in mind something about flight sims: It seems like no matter how big the HD is that you have, the flight sim will somehow expand to fill the whole friggen thing up. Addon planes, scenery, gauges, you name it. It just seems to keep adding up
Good fortune, and have fun!
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