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Click Start (or whatever your equivalent is, as I see you customize your windows a lot). 
Type "Create and Format"
Click "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions"
Find the drive out of the list.
Right click each partition on that disk and click "Delete Volume..."

*NOTE*: This will delete all the data on those partitions.

Right click the unallocated space.
Click "Format.."
Format as NTSF.

Now you are done.

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the title says it all and i got this hdd not being used because it was forgotten after a incident with a old computer.

so i needed more space for my anime collection so i installed it in my case and somebody had them separated before during installation of windows in the previous computer maybe

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so any ideas what i could do

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Click Start (or whatever your equivalent is, as I see you customize your windows a lot). 
Type "Create and Format"
Click "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions"
Find the drive out of the list.
Right click each partition on that disk and click "Delete Volume..."

*NOTE*: This will delete all the data on those partitions.

Right click the unallocated space.
Click "Format.."
Format as NTSF.

Now you are done.

Unrelated: What is that on your desktop for Windows?

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you could make a JBOD array.

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Click Start (or whatever your equivalent is, as I see you customize your windows a lot). 

Type "Create and Format"

Click "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions"

Find the drive out of the list.

Right click each partition on that disk and click "Delete Volume..."

*NOTE*: This will delete all the data on those partitions.

Right click the unallocated space.

Click "Format.."

Format as NTSF.

Now you are done.

Unrelated: What is that on your desktop for Windows?

ok thanks i will try that

and which thing are you talking about rocket dock or rainmetter 

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Click Start (or whatever your equivalent is, as I see you customize your windows a lot). 

Type "Create and Format"

Click "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions"

Find the drive out of the list.

Right click each partition on that disk and click "Delete Volume..."

*NOTE*: This will delete all the data on those partitions.

Right click the unallocated space.

Click "Format.."

Format as NTSF.

Now you are done.

Unrelated: What is that on your desktop for Windows?

thanks it worked 

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you could make a JBOD array.

 

JBOD (Just a bunch of disks) just shows up as all separate drives.

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JBOD (Just a bunch of disks) just shows up as all separate drives.

i though JBOD was like Raid, I guess im wrong than.

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ok thanks i will try that

and which thing are you talking about rocket dock or rainmetter 

thanks it worked 

Rocket Dock. Thanks. :)

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i though JBOD was like Raid, I guess im wrong than.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures#JBOD

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Rocket Dock. Thanks. :)

so did you get what you were looking for

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Yep, thanks for the help.

your welcome 

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or they may be combined into a single logical volume using a system like LVM.["

 

 

That has not anything to do with JBOD, JBOD only refers to that they are all independently recognized by the system.

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