Can't delete or fix partitions?

Dogsnapper6 · May 23, 2017

I recently acquired two older HDD's and after installing them I went to disk management to initialize and to see what's up with them because I want to use my other 3 SSD's for games and these new ones for everything else so what's happening is one disk which is disk 2 has two partitions it reads as this side to side instead of top to bottom as I have for you to see.

Disk 2
Basic
149.05 GB
Online

9.76 GB
Healthy (OEM Partition)

(F

139.29 GB NTFS
Healthy (Primary Partition)

Ok so I had no problem formatting and setting new simple volume, it had lots of options upon right clicking but I want it to be one drive no partitions but when I right click the first partition all it gives me is a help button I am running WIN 10 PRO
Thanks a lot in advance for any help

USAFRet · May 23, 2017

Wipe them with DBAN, and start from a clean slate.
https://dban.org/

Dogsnapper6 · May 24, 2017

Got no problem trying that but was curious if there was a simple solution within windows or even within Disk Management?
If not oh well I'm going to download DBan soon as I can.

USAFRet · May 24, 2017

Dogsnapper6 :

I do that as a matter of policy with any used drives, or systems, that I acquire.
I don't want any bits of the old user to get a whiff of my main systems.

Dogsnapper6 · May 24, 2017

I also noticed with these programs that When I watch them being used on YouTube that the tutorial for them usually shows someone trying to start from scratch. Is it possible to use this and keep my other 4 hard drives plugged in including my drive with operating system?

USAFRet · May 24, 2017

Dogsnapper6 :

I generally do that with a easily identified, USB connected drive.
For an internal drive, I absolutely disconnect ALL other drives, except for the soon to be wiped.
If I had a nickel for every thread I've read here about "oops...I wiped the wrong drive"...I'd have a BUNCH of nickels.

If other drives are physically disconnected, you can't make a mistake.

Dogsnapper6 · May 24, 2017

Yeah I guess that's the way to go my M.2 won't be easy to unplug but yep so all I'm doing is booting from a cd with dban on it and after Its wiped shut down and plug everything else back in and pick the one i want to boot from?

USAFRet · May 24, 2017

Dogsnapper6 :

Well, you only boot from one...the one with the OS on it.

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