Merging all partitions in a secondary drive

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Hi All,
I got a new 1 TB WD drive (internal) for my 5-year-old laptop (I hate external drives because I had one which gave me head ache many times). I still have my Toshiba 320 GB (which came along with my laptop) inside my laptop using a caddy drive. Now I’m planning to use the WD as the main drive and the Toshiba for storing important files (will soon make it an external with a case).

Using the Toshiba for 5 years, I had multiple partitions. Now that I’m going to use the WD as main drive, I need to make the Toshiba a single 320 GB drive (I know the actual space will be 298 GB approx.)

Now my problem is, I see different “TYPES” of partitions on my Toshiba drive. See image attached from Ease US partition free.

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Please let me know how can I merge all the partitions into one single partition. I cannot understand what are logical & primary.

P.S. I will empty the Toshiba drive partitons before merging.

Thanks in advance.
 
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It only shows up in Windows Explorer after it has been formatted and given a drive letter.
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Now I understand. Does deleting make all the partiton to logical or primary?
 

USAFRet

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Once you delete ALL of them, you will have one large blank space.
That will be a primary partition.
 
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I will not show up in windows explorer, but in disk management or partition software, right?
 

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator


It only shows up in Windows Explorer after it has been formatted and given a drive letter.
 
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