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maharshi1234
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I have 1tb HDD. 2 years ago i installed linux as dual boot with windows 10. But those 140gb is used by linux and windows dual boot in BIOS not working.

In Win 10, it is showing only 790 GB. I want to format all 1 TB.

In Disk management, it is not letting me format those 140GB space that is allocated by linux.

How to hard format everything?  

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Does it let you delete the partition?

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2 minutes ago, maharshi1234 said:

No. This 140gb partition dont have option to format

Deleting a partition is not the same as formatting, so I'm not really sure which one you're talking about.

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Use minitool partition manager to delete the partition and resize the other one.  Or delete everything if that's what you want and your data is backed up.

You'll only want to do the resize if the linux partition is at the end as you can only extend to the right, unless you can leave it run for a day or so to move the windows partition to the left.

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9 hours ago, Enderman said:

Deleting a partition is not the same as formatting, so I'm not really sure which one you're talking about.

Currently that 140gb partition is not showing in windows. I want to format everything and i want only 1 partitoin with 1000gb

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5 hours ago, maharshi1234 said:

Currently that 140gb partition is not showing in windows. I want to format everything and i want only 1 partitoin with 1000gb

Yeah, that's what deleting a partition does, it allows you to reombine them.

Formating is not necessary, that happens automatically when it's deleted.

Maybe post a screenshot of disk management?

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