Reformatting hard drive

[thatguyyouknow75]

How do I reformat a drive in disk management? There are 2 partitions (healthy recovery and healthy efi) I believe are left over from when the drive once contained an OS? How do I get rid of these partitions?

[Guest]

You cannot format a drive while it is mounted.

 

You have to use a bootable OS such as GParted. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

[QFA350]

Right click and select delete volume to both partitions. Once that is done right click on the disk and select new simple volume and format it to the system you want.

[thatguyyouknow75]

Right click and select delete volume to both partitions. Once that is done right click on the disk and select new simple volume and format it to the system you want.

right clicking doesn't give me a delete option

[thatguyyouknow75]

You cannot format a drive while it is mounted.

 

You have to use a bootable OS such as GParted. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

what do you mean mounted? I reinstalled OS to a new ssd and I'm just trying to use the old HDD for mass storage and free up 400gb

[Guest]

what do you mean mounted? I reinstalled OS to a new ssd and I'm just trying to use the old HDD for mass storage and free up 400gb

By mounted I mean the drive is currently being used.

[astranger200]

By mounted I mean the drive is currently being used.

yes you can.

i have done it 20 or more times

[Guest]

yes you can.

i have done it 20 or more times

Your telling me, that you have re-formatted a drive while it is being written to?

 

Well, that is stupid.

 

Also, I will NEVER acknowledge information or tips from you now that you recommend doing this.

 

You should ALWAYS unmount a drive before formatting it.