Hard drive shown as 2 disks - how to combine?

Yes, I saw that. Thanks. Deleting the partitions seems to take a long time (although PW called this "quick").

Bummer.
If you want to, cancel that, and then use the diskpart clean.
That always runs fast for me.
The clean ALL would take a long time.

I just noticed in my last screen shot that PW seems to see 2 disks with 1 partition each. Should this not be one disk with 2 partitions?

Just guessing again, but i wonder if a PW wipe is basically doing a clean ALL.
That would write over all data on the HD with zeroes.

resucami said:

I just noticed in my last screen shot that PW seems to see 2 disks with 1 partition each. Should this not be one disk with 2 partitions?

Yea, i don't know why you see 2 drives...
That's why a diskpart clean might be the better way to start.

OK. I'll do that.

diskpart is also showing 2 disks.

clean all for disk 1 is running and seems also to take quite some time.

Clean ALL will take a long time.
That's why i suggested using the Clean option. (not Clean ALL)
Clean ALL writes over every sector with zeroes.

Here is a quote from the tutorial i linked in post #8

9. To Use the Clean All Diskpart Command
NOTE: See the green INFO box at the top of the tutorial for more information about this command. This command will wipe the HDD, and perform a secure erase. "Clean All" takes about an hour per 320 GB to finish running. It's best to only use this command if you wanted to help make sure that the data on the HDD cannot be recovered say when giving or selling the HDD to another person.

I guess I have to wait this out now - correct?