How to merge to unallocated spaces into one? (SOLVED)

[ItsDanish]

I want to merge these three sections into one but nothing on youtube is working, please help if you know what to do. this is a hdd I added to my pc yesterday so theres nothing on it so theres no worries about losing data, I just dont want to see one hard drive as three mini hard drive sections.

[Windows7ge]

Is there data on the drive you need to keep in tact? Is this a boot drive? If neither then you can remove all the partitions and create one large one in either Disk Management or DISKPART.

[ItsDanish]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Is there data on the drive you need to keep in tact? Is this a boot drive? If neither then you can remove all the partitions and create one large one in either Disk Management or DISKPART.

no I got it yesterday from a friend and theres nothing on it. Notice how the expand volume button is grayed out, idk whats up with that

[t4ils]

3 minutes ago, ItsDanish said:

no I got it yesterday from a friend and theres nothing on it. Notice how the expand volume button is grayed out, idk whats up with that

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Delete all the volumes on the disk, and then create a new volume.

[ItsDanish]

Just now, t4ils said:

Delete all the volumes on the disk, and then create a new volume.

It wont let me delete the middle one (450MB Healthy Recovery Partition)

[NumLock21]

That recovery partition is supposed to be on your C drive not your 2nd drive. Delete the entire drive and then create a new partition.

[t4ils]

2 minutes ago, ItsDanish said:

It wont let me delete the middle one (450MB Healthy Recovery Partition)

Open Command Prompt/Powershell as Adminstrator. Type these commands in:

diskpart
select disk 2
list partition

What's the output of the last command?

[ItsDanish]

1 minute ago, t4ils said:

Open Command Prompt/Powershell as Adminstrator. Type these commands in:

diskpart
select disk 2
list partition

What's the output of the last command?

Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            445 GB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Recovery           450 MB   445 GB
  Partition 3    Primary             19 GB   446 GB

[ItsDanish]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

That recovery partition is supposed to be on your C drive not your 2nd drive. Delete the entire drive and then create a new partition.

how would I go about doing that?

[t4ils]

Just now, ItsDanish said:

Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            445 GB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Recovery           450 MB   445 GB
  Partition 3    Primary             19 GB   446 GB

Type these commands while in a new Administrator Command Prompt/PowerShell:

diskpart
select disk 2
select partition 1
delete partition
select partition 2
delete partition override
select partition 3
delete partition

 

[NumLock21]

6 minutes ago, ItsDanish said:

how would I go about doing that?

Use Diskpart

Open CMD with AdMIN

Type the following, then press Enter

Diskpart

List disk

Select Disk # where # is the disk you want to wipe out

Clean

Exit (to exit diskpart)

Exit (to close CMD)

[ItsDanish]

2 minutes ago, t4ils said:

Type these commands while in a new Administrator Command Prompt/PowerShell:

diskpart
select disk 2
select partition 1
delete partition
select partition 2
delete partition override
select partition 3
delete partition

 

THANK YOU

[t4ils]

Just now, ItsDanish said:

THANK YOU

np

Though I forgot that the clean command was a thing and that @NumLock21's way was easier

[ItsDanish]

7 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Use Diskpart

Open CMD with AdMIN

Type the following, then press Enter

Diskpart

List disk

Select Disk # where # is the disk you want to wipe out

Clean

Exit

Exit

thanks for taking the time to help a poor soul