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Remove partitions
Norman_Castle
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Trying to reuse a used hard drive as storage. 40gb drive has 3 partitions. 25gb which is empty and wiped by using ccleaner drive wiper. 9.98gb which was used by ubunto. Emptied via device management and now unallocated, and 2.28 gb which is HP recovery presumably for the pc the drive was removed from. Formatting only offers to format the 25gb partition.
How do I turn this back into a single 40gb drive?
How do I turn this back into a single 40gb drive?
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Norman_Castle wrote: »How do I turn this back into a single 40gb drive?
You delete all existing partitions, create a new single partition, then format with the filing system of your choice.Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
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you dont want to delete you want to merge , search merge partitions on google.0
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delete all partitions by running diskmgmt.msc, create a new one, then quick format (or full format if you are paranoid about previous contents being recoverable)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx!!
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Deleted and created new 35gb partition. Cannot delete HP recovery which I suspect is because of this
- You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).
Thanks for the help.0 -
I've found this to be pretty good at deleting non standard partitions in the past...
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
TBH though a 40GB drive is hardly worth the effort these days.0 -
Norman_Castle wrote: »Deleted and created new 35gb partition. Cannot delete HP recovery which I suspect is because of this
- You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).
Thanks for the help.
In that case, download a copy of GParted Live and burn it to CD (or USB stick) and boot from that.
http://gparted.org/livecd.php0
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