easierThat always depends on personal experience and preference . I always find reinstalling the OS as the surest and most straight forward way to fix many problems . WD Blacks are great drives apparently . I ' d certainly put my OS on there , and I would do it with a fresh install , and I would not partition the disk into segments . I ' d leave it as one big chunk and use the other disk as a backup drive . 2 TB is plenty of space . <| sep |> I ' ve done this twice . Especially when hooking it up to the external switch . Remember never let the magic smoke out ! <| sep |> I ' ve done it . I made up a small batch of HP soap 140 degrees and added chunks of the bad batch to it , stirring everything in slowly . It will take some patience . I would only do this if I was absolutely sure I knew exactly how much lye and water I needed . Sometimes it ' s just easier to scrap it and start over . Consider it the cost of tuition .