Install the internal hard drive or plug in the USB external hard drive. Use lsusb to show your external hard drive. Use fdisk to identify the new hard drives:

$ sudo fdisk -l | sd*

Start fdisk:

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sde

List partitions and delete existing partition and create new partition:

p (to list partitions)
d (to delete existing partition)
1 (which partition to delete)
n (new partition)
1 (new partition number)
default (start of partition)
default (end of partition)
y (to remove signature)
w (to write changes)

Next, make the file system:

$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sde1

Hard Drive Larger than 2TBpar

parted /dev/sde
mklabel gpt
mkpart primary 0TB 12TB

$sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde1

Copy Files from Old Hard Drive with Rsync

rsync -a /media/storage/ /media/hdd3