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Working in Windows 10 Disc Management

Anonymous
2024-12-01T16:30:47+00:00

One of my drives shows 6 partitions. From the left they are Labeled:

  • 100 MB Healthy (EFI System)
  • (E:) 463.34 GB NTFS Healthy (Basic Data Partition)
  • 520MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
  • 520MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
  • 855MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
  • 350MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)

Only the (E:) partition seems to be available for use.

I would like to expand the (E:) partition and get access to the remaining 2345 MB.  But, right clicking on any of the other partitions only brings up a “Help” option that doesn’t actually provide any help.

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  1. DaveM121 871.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-03T07:26:02+00:00

    If you have transferred the data off that E drive, then you can use Command Prompt to delete all partitions on that drive, please note, this process will wipe the whole drive..

    Open Command Prompt by right clicking its icon and select 'Run as Administrator'.

    Run this command and hit Enter:

    diskpart

    Run this command and hit Enter:

    list disk

    (Make note of the disk number you want to wipe and enter it into the next command - replace X)

    Run this command and hit Enter:

    select disk X

    Run this command and hit Enter:

    clean

    Close Command Prompt, then please provide a screenshot of that disk in Disk Management.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-02T22:39:09+00:00

    Hi Dave:

    Thanks for the advice. However, perhaps I wasn't sufficiently clear in my original post. My problem is that if i right-click on any of the partitions except the E: partition the only option I get is "Help". The E: partition drop-down includes all the options like "Shrink Volume, Expand Volume, Delete Volume". Except "Extend Volume"!

    If I activate Help on any of the other partition, I get transferred to an online site that tells me all the wonderful things one can do with Disk Management but not how to do them.

    So, I can do whatever I want with the E: partition (which I already formatted), but the basic question is, is there some other way to delete the rest of the partitions?

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  2. DaveM121 871.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-02T07:16:39+00:00

    Thank you for the screenshots.

    Because Windows has limited partitioning ability, to resolve the problem with the drive that the E drive partition is on, you would need to temporarily move the data from E onto another drive, then delete all partitions on that drive and create one large partition for drive E on that drive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-01T23:55:44+00:00

    Hello Dave;

    The PC I am dealing with is one that I am busy assembling. All the drives came from other computers and you are absolutely correct, Drive 1 was originally a C: drive. In the new environment the C: drive is a 500GB M.2 SSD plugged directly into an expansion slot on the new motherboard The original C: drive has been formatted as Drive E:

    I have a problem with attaching a screen shot because I haven't installed Photoshop yet, so I took two pictures of the screen with my smart phone and copied them over to another PC.

    The first picture shows Disc 0 through Disc 6

    Image

    The second picture is discs 4 through 9. I hope you can make out the text. Sorry about the overlap, it was the best thing I could think of!

    Image

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  4. DaveM121 871.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-01T18:02:57+00:00

    Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    From your description, it sounds like there was previously a Windows installation on that drive.

    Open Disk Management, then expand the bottom pane so all drives and partitions are visible in that pane, please provide a screenshot of that Disk Management window.

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