Sharpstick68 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I have an old 1 TB Western Digital Blue drive that I want to format, but it has a recovery partition that's 18 GB. How can I remove that partition so that when I format it, it becomes one big partition?. Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 delete the partition. What version of windows are you using? Link to post Share on other sites
Mindovermaster Share Posted August 29, 2019 Use this: https://gparted.org/ It's painstaking easy. Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 No reason to use that... he can do it from windows with diskpart. Simple as delete partition override. From admin cmd prompt C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: I5-WIN DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 119 GB 0 B Disk 2 Online 2794 GB 0 B * Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B Disk 4 No Media 0 B 0 B Disk 5 No Media 0 B 0 B Disk 6 No Media 0 B 0 B DISKPART> sel disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list part Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 500 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Primary 231 GB 501 MB Partition 3 Recovery 836 MB 232 GB DISKPART> sel part 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> DISKPART> help delete partition Deletes the partition with focus. Syntax: DELETE PARTITION [NOERR] [OVERRIDE] NOERR For scripting only. When an error is encountered, DiskPart continues to process commands as if the error did not occur. Without the NOERR parameter, an error causes DiskPart to exit with an error code. OVERRIDE Enables DiskPart to delete any partition regardless of type. Typically, DiskPart only permits you to delete known data partitions. You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump) filed. A partition must be selected for this operation to succeed. Partitions cannot be deleted from dynamic disks or created on dynamic disks. Example: 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 I'm using Windows 7 to do this at the moment Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 commands should be the same.. windows 7 had diskpart as well. 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Alright I'm using diskpart, and I got to the part to delete the partition, but it says Virtual Disk Service error: Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set. Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 I don't have windows 7 handy to check.... Let me see if I have a VM I can fire up ready. Nope.. Sorry.. ######.. you should be able to just use the force - do a help command like I showed Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Ok no problem take your time Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 This is the one in question that I'm trying to do it on by the way Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 It really should be the same command.. Your running cmd as admin.. Post up screenshots Which ones - you have a few parts there.. you want to delete them all.. Are you trying to delte the efi one, you have to set the id for thos SET ID=ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7" After you have selected it, then use the del part override Link to post Share on other sites
Mindovermaster Share Posted August 29, 2019 Yes, Windows can do it natively, but GParted will allow you to delete those pesky partitions. Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Yes I want to get rid of all of that so it becomes 1 drive Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 If you want to do it with gui, then grab a free tool.. But it can be done with the diskpart, but you have to be in elevated cmd prompt, and you have to use the override command and those efi are different you have to set the ID.. With the last one - you might be able to just right click that in disk manager and delete it. If you want the whole disk gone, you can prob just use the clean cmd 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 yes I want to get rid of all of those partitions on the drive and make it so it is 1 drive. How do I do the clean command you are talking about? Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 admin cmd prompt diskpart sel disk clean 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 and that should get rid of the partitions on that drive? Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 Did you read what it does It gets rid of EVERYTHING! You then repart it how you want and format it. You can do that in the gui. Where did my post go - I thought I posted cmd help Syntax: CLEAN [ALL] ALL Specifies that each and every byte\sector on the disk is set to zero, which completely deletes all data contained on the disk. On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective MBR, is overwritten. If the ALL parameter is not used, the first 1MB and the last 1MB of the disk are zeroed. This erases any disk formatting that had been previously applied to the disk. The disk's state after cleaning the disk is 'UNINITIALIZED'. 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 I'm scared to do this in command prompt, what gui program can you recommend I use because I have other drives connected to my machine and I dont want to risk getting rid of those Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 just make sure you select the right one But sure you can use the tool that @Mindovermaster linked too.. or there are many others.. One sec https://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html That one should work.. But there are like a 100 of them.. But there is no reason really you can list the partitions on your disk and make sure your just sel the correct one before you do clean command Link to post Share on other sites
ThaCrip Share Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Sharpstick68 said: This is the one in question that I'm trying to do it on by the way Using that you can just delete each one and then re-create one large drive. it's pretty easy. Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 Yeah pretty sure - have not used it in YEARS!! since you can do everything they can do just with diskpart Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, ThaCrip said: Using that you can just delete each one and then re-create one large drive. I tried right-clicking the one that says Healthy (EFI System Partition) and everything was greyed out, the only one I could do anything with is the 912.11 GB one. Link to post Share on other sites
+BudMan MVC Share Posted August 29, 2019 the disk manger built in will not allow you to del thouse you have to use a tool, or disk part.. Just use the clean command.. Are you other disks 1TB in size? Its pretty hard to select the wrong Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpstick68 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 No, my other drives are 2 TB, 3 TB and 500 GB in size Link to post Share on other sites
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