I bought a 1tb sata drive on ebay which came from new hp laptops but the drive is split into 4 partitions a main 931gb 2 x recovery and another EFI one but I can only delete the main partition.
Everything is greyed out on the other 3 and all you get is help
I am using win7 and this is in disk management any idea how to wipe the
drive clean?
On 1 Apr 2022 at 18:14:44 BST, ""jimmy"" <[email protected]> wrote:
I bought a 1tb sata drive on ebay which came from new hp laptops but the
drive is split into 4 partitions a main 931gb 2 x recovery and another EFI >> one but I can only delete the main partition.
Everything is greyed out on the other 3 and all you get is help
I am using win7 and this is in disk management any idea how to wipe the
drive clean?
Does win7 have diskpart?
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
Cheers - Jaimie
"jimmy" wrote in message news:t27bu3$1cv9$[email protected]...
I bought a 1tb sata drive on ebay which came from new hp laptops but the drive is split into 4 partitions a main 931gb 2 x recovery and another EFI one but I can only delete the main partition.
Everything is greyed out on the other 3 and all you get is help
I am using win7 and this is in disk management any idea how to wipe the
drive clean?
I sussed it!
"jimmy" wrote in message news:t27bu3$1cv9$[email protected]...
I bought a 1tb sata drive on ebay which came from new hp laptops but the drive is split into 4 partitions a main 931gb 2 x recovery and another EFI one but I can only delete the main partition.
Everything is greyed out on the other 3 and all you get is help
I am using win7 and this is in disk management any idea how to wipe the
drive clean?
I sussed it!
"wasbit" wrote in message news:t292f4$mhn$[email protected]...
"jimmy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:t27cgs$1lr2$[email protected]...
"jimmy" wrote in message news:t27bu3$1cv9$[email protected]...
I bought a 1tb sata drive on ebay which came from new hp laptops but the
drive is split into 4 partitions a main 931gb 2 x recovery and another
EFI one but I can only delete the main partition.
Everything is greyed out on the other 3 and all you get is help
I am using win7 and this is in disk management any idea how to wipe the
drive clean?
I sussed it!
CMD in ADMIN mode
DISKPART
LIST DISKS
SELECT DISK x (x=DISK YOU WANT TO CLEAN)
CLEAN ALL
WAIT 3 HOURS WHERE NOTHING APPEARS TO BE HAPPENING (320GB PER HOUR)
Disk now clean ready to be set up in DISK MANAGEMENT
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