HDD not being displayed

[aidanmatro]

i had a dual boot pc one with windows other on kali i needed disk space so i tried deleting the kali system but now it dosnt come up in file manager any help??

[Spotty]

You will need to reformat the drive for it to show up in your file manager. In Windows this is done through Disk Management.

[aidanmatro]

Just now, Spotty said:

You will need to reformat the drive for it to show up in your file manager. In Windows this is done through Disk Management.

can you walk me throught it please

[Spotty]

Open Disk Management (Open settings and search for "Disk management" or "Format" and it will come up)
Find the unformatted disk in the list

Right click it and select Format

Follow the prompts to format the disk as NTFS

Use quick format

Once it's formatted you can assign a drive letter (if it doesn't assign one automatically) and it will be accessible in file manager

 

Depending on how you tried to remove the Kali OS from the drive it might still be formatted with the Kali on it. Keep in mind that you will lose all the data on the drive when reformatting.

[aidanmatro]

Just now, Spotty said:

Open Disk Management (Open settings and search for "Disk management" or "Format" and it will come up)
Find the unformatted disk in the list

Right click it and select Format

Follow the prompts to format the disk as NTFS

Use quick format

Once it's formatted you can assign a drive letter (if it doesn't assign one automatically) and it will be accessible in file manager

 

Depending on how you tried to remove the Kali OS from the drive it might still be formatted with the Kali on it. Keep in mind that you will lose all the data on the drive when reformatting.

i cant format tho delete volume will same thing ?

[Spotty]

2 minutes ago, aidanmatro said:

i cant format tho delete volume will same thing ?

Select the disk from the bottom list not the top list. You have to select the volume not the disk.

 

Can you post a screenshot of what your disk management looks like so I can see if it already has a volume allocated to the drive?

[aidanmatro]

Just now, Spotty said:

Select the disk from the bottom list not the top list.

Can you post a screenshot of what your disk management looks like so I can see if it already has a volume allocated to the drive?

 

here

[gen_angry]

Oh hell, Windows did that thing where they put the EFI on Disk 0 but his actual install is on Disk 1.

 

I assume you only gave Kali about 30GB space?

[Spotty]

Delete the 27.94GB Healthy Primary Partition and the 977MB Healthy Primary Partition. Leave the 512MB EFI System.

Once the two Primary Partitions are removed you will need to select the black Unallocated section and select Format.

The Disk 1 is your C: drive for Windows. Don't do anything to that!

 

[aidanmatro]

Just now, Spotty said:

Delete the 27.94GB Healthy Primary Partition and the 977MB Healthy Primary Partition. Leave the 512MB EFI System.

Once the two Primary Partitions are removed you will need to select the black Unallocated section and select Format.

The Disk 1 is your C: drive for Windows. Don't do anything to that!

 

same thing i cant format

 

[gen_angry]

You want 'New Simple Volume'. It'll format it during those steps.

[Spotty]

Just now, aidanmatro said:

same thing i cant format

New Simple Volume on that black Unallocated box is how to create a new partition.
Sorry, I'm trying to go off memory and without having an unformatted drive to look at I can't remember what all the menus are called.

 

Click New Simple Volume and then follow the menu prompts to create a new storage volume on the disk. If it asks if you want FAT32 or NTFS select NTFS. Set it to use the full volume space (465.26GB)

[aidanmatro]

Just now, Spotty said:

New Simple Volume on that black Unallocated box is how to create a new partition.
Sorry, I'm trying to go off memory and without having an unformatted drive to look at I can't remember what all the menus are called.

 

Click New Simple Volume and then follow the menu prompts to create a new storage volume on the disk. If it asks if you want FAT32 or NTFS select NTFS. Set it to use the full volume space (465.26GB)

thank you sir for ur kindness u too gen_angry