Can't delete partitions on 2TB HDD


  1. Posts : 40
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    Can't delete partitions on 2TB HDD


    I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x64. I have a 2TB drive installed which I originally partitioned in half. It does not have any data on it. I'm trying to get it to be one drive again but it doesn't seem to want to be. Any ideas? It's Disk 4 I'm trying to get back to one disk.

    Thanks
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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    joenaz2003 said:
    I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x64. I have a 2TB drive installed which I originally partitioned in half. It does not have any data on it. I'm trying to get it to be one drive again but it doesn't seem to want to be. Any ideas? It's Disk 4 I'm trying to get back to one disk.

    Thanks
    Hardly in half. One partition is 1857 and one 9 gigs. One partition is basic and one dynamic.

    What are you using to try and delete the partitions?
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  3. Posts : 40
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It was originally in half. I originally split it up to do a recovery and I used Ubuntu to split it into 2 ntfs partitions. I then tried to delete the volumes and this is what I ended up with. I was using the windows disk manager.
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  4. Posts : 28,845
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    joenaz2003 said:
    It was originally in half. I originally split it up to do a recovery and I used Ubuntu to split it into 2 ntfs partitions. I then tried to delete the volumes and this is what I ended up with. I was using the windows disk manager.
    Ok do you want to make the whole HD a basic volume? There is a much better (and free trial) app to do that. Parigon disk suite.
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  5. Posts : 40
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    That is exactly what I want to do
    Would that be Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition?
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  6. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    You could easily do this in diskpart from an elevated cmd prompt.....

    diskpart
    list disk
    sel disk <#> (where "<#>" is the # of the disk to be modified, found via the output of the "list disk" command)
    clean
    convert basic
    detail disk

    This would "clean" the partition information from the disk, convert the disk back to basic, and then output detailed information about that disk afterwards.
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  7. Posts : 40
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
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    cluberti said:
    You could easily do this in diskpart from an elevated cmd prompt.....

    diskpart
    list disk
    sel disk <#> (where "<#>" is the # of the disk to be modified, found via the output of the "list disk" command)
    clean
    convert basic
    detail disk

    This would "clean" the partition information from the disk, convert the disk back to basic, and then output detailed information about that disk afterwards.
    Awesome. That worked like a charm. Thank you for the help.
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  8. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    Good to hear :).
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