drive management problems

[_exp_]

i got this hard drive out of a laptop and installed it in my computer, and i noticed in disk management that there were 4 recovery partitions tied to it that i cant get rid of. Is there anyway that i can remove them or shrink them so they use a tiny amount of space. (picture included)

 

EDIT: problem solved

[kirashi]

4 minutes ago, _exp_ said:

i got this hard drive out of a laptop and installed it in my computer, and i noticed in disk management that there were 4 recovery partitions tied to it that i cant get rid of. Is there anyway that i can remove them or shrink them so they use a tiny amount of space. (picture included)

You can either format the entire drive, or if you wish to keep the data on it, you can boot into a live Linux Distro and resize the partitions there. However, personally I find it less time consuming to just copy the data you want to keep off the drive, format it, then copy stuff back to it.

[_exp_]

1 minute ago, kirashi said:

You can either format the entire drive, or if you wish to keep the data on it, you can boot into a live Linux Distro and resize the partitions there. However, personally I find it less time consuming to just copy the data you want to keep off the drive, format it, then copy stuff back to it.

I had already formatted the drive before i noticed the 4 partitions. is there any way i can do it in windows?

[kirashi]

3 minutes ago, _exp_ said:

I had already formatted the drive before i noticed the 4 partitions. is there any way i can do it in windows?

Yes, you can use diskpart via the command line to format the drive. There are guides below for doing this.

Be careful as you can nuke the wrong drive if you're not looking.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en?language=en-ca

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

[_exp_]

5 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Yes, you can use diskpart via the command line to format the drive. There are guides below for doing this. Be careful as you can nuke the wrong drive if you're not looking.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en?language=en-ca

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

thankyou that looks like it has worked

[NelizMastr]

By the way, you need the EFI system partition, so never delete that or Windows won't boot, ever again.

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Just now, NelizMastr said:

By the way, you need the EFI system partition, so never delete that or Windows won't boot, ever again.

the drive i was talking about i had extracted out of my old laptop and doesnt contain my boot files for my desktop

[NelizMastr]

1 minute ago, _exp_ said:

the drive i was talking about i had extracted out of my old laptop and doesnt contain my boot files for my desktop

Aight