Repartitioning Hard Drive

Bennie-Mac · 24 Feb 2014 at 19:13

Hey guys, hopefully a quick one for you.

Replaced my Lenovo laptop 1TB HDD with an SSD, bought an enclosure for the 1TB to turn it into an external drive. It seems to have a total of 6 partitions thanks to all the OEM recovery partitions etc, how can I get them merged together into one usable drive? Drive is in the process of formatting and I dont need to keep anything thats on it so not worried about any data losses. Can it be done through Windows Disk Management (if so how?) or do I need 3rd party software?

Thanks

Image of drive partitions if it's of any use.

UnworthyBean · 24 Feb 2014 at 19:16

You can do it through DISKPART command line.

Code:

Open up Command Prompt,

Type DISKPART

List Disk

Select Disk #

List Partition

Select Partition #

Delete Partition Override

Hopefully this makes sense to you.

Bennie-Mac · 24 Feb 2014 at 19:26

Yeah that makes sense, much appreciated!

bledd · 25 Feb 2014 at 07:46

You can use the command 'clean disk' iirc, in diskpart

Personally, I use gparted. It's the built in partition manager on Linux mint / ubuntu. You can run it from a live cd.

If you're using it for Windows only, use NTFS. If you want it on a mac and Windows, use exfat