HDD is not detected after Volume erase

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Hello

I erased all Volume on my second HDD and now it's not detected anymore.

I wanted to delete all files and format it.

How can I detect it again?

 

Thank you in advance.

[ProjectBox153]

Find the drive in Disk Management. Do you see unallocated space?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Does it show up in Disk Management? 

 

If so, it probably has unallocated space. Right click on the unallocated space and select "New Simple Volume", then follow the setup wizard. 

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2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Find the drive in Disk Management. Do you see unallocated space?

This is what I see

 

Update:

I have 3 Harddrives in total

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, Hip said:

This is what I see

 

Update:

I have 3 Harddrives in total

Looks like drive 1 (as in drives 0, 1 and 2) has mostly unallocated space and some redundant partitions. Right click on the three boxes with the blue bar at the top and select delete volume. After that, the whole thing should be unallocated space, with a black bar at the top. Right click that and select new simple volume. 

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1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Looks like drive 1 (as in drives 0, 1 and 2) has mostly unallocated space and some redundant partitions. Right click on the three boxes with the blue bar at the top and select delete volume. After that, the whole thing should be unallocated space, with a black bar at the top. Right click that and select new simple volume. 

 

I see three there ahhh :-D

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, Hip said:

 

I see three there ahhh :-D

Yep, so on drive 1, delete the three small blue partitions, then right click on the black and create a new simple volume. It will take you through a setup wizard asking for things like the filesystems and such. Most of it can be left as default unless you need something specifically. Should ask you for a drive letter at the end of it, then once done it will show up in file explorer and be accessible to use. 

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2 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yep, so on drive 1, delete the three small blue partitions, then right click on the black and create a new simple volume. It will take you through a setup wizard asking for things like the filesystems and such. Most of it can be left as default unless you need something specifically. Should ask you for a drive letter at the end of it, then once done it will show up in file explorer and be accessible to use. 

Somehow there is only "help" when I right click on the partitions. How to delete them instead?

[Oshino Shinobu]

3 minutes ago, Hip said:

Somehow there is only "help" when I right click on the partitions. How to delete them instead?

They're probably remainders from an old Windows install by the looks of things. They''re often marked as important files for the system so Windows doesn't let you delete them easily. To be fair, they only take up about 1GB of space on the drive, so you can just leave them there and just create a new volume on the one black partition. 

 

As the OS is on a different drive, which also has recovery and EFI partitions, deleting the ones on that drive should be fine, but there is a chance the system is using them. 

 

If you use Diskpart, you can force the system to delete them, just make sure you're deleting the right thing. 

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-efi-system-partition.html

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6 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

They're probably remainders from an old Windows install by the looks of things. They''re often marked as important files for the system so Windows doesn't let you delete them easily. To be fair, they only take up about 1GB of space on the drive, so you can just leave them there and just create a new volume on the one black partition. 

 

As the OS is on a different drive, which also has recovery and EFI partitions, deleting the ones on that drive should be fine, but there is a chance the system is using them. 

 

If you use Diskpart, you can force the system to delete them, just make sure you're deleting the right thing. 

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-efi-system-partition.html

Well maybe I will rather keep the stuff on there. As you said before, it's less than 1 GB so I think I can live with that and just create a new Volume.

Thank you for your help!

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18 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

They're probably remainders from an old Windows install by the looks of things. They''re often marked as important files for the system so Windows doesn't let you delete them easily. To be fair, they only take up about 1GB of space on the drive, so you can just leave them there and just create a new volume on the one black partition. 

 

As the OS is on a different drive, which also has recovery and EFI partitions, deleting the ones on that drive should be fine, but there is a chance the system is using them. 

 

If you use Diskpart, you can force the system to delete them, just make sure you're deleting the right thing. 

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-efi-system-partition.html

Solved:

Oh I have another question, somehow my other Harddrive with 600GB is not detected now. I can not even see it in the Harddrivemanager. :-(