Putting partitions back together.

segasega · 07-05-2014 7:02pm #1

I put the old hard drive from my netbook into my desktop. Just as a bit of extra storage. It shows up fine, but it shows as 2 drives. An OS one and a recovery partition. Just wondering how I format it back to a single drive?

Checked in disk Management, but not 100% sure what Im doing. So didnt want to go ahead and do something that might mess things up. Sure its straight forward enough, just never did it before.

Thanks.

segasega · 07-05-2014 7:08pm

There is also a 3rd partition actually, its only 39MB called OEM partition.

bonzodog2 · 07-05-2014 7:13pm

If you're sure there's nothing you want, never going back in the netbook etc, right click each partition, choose Delete Volume. Then right click unallocated space, make a new partition and format it

gctest50 · 07-05-2014 7:20pm

segasega wrote: »

I put the old hard drive from my netbook into my desktop. Just as a bit of extra storage. It shows up fine, but it shows as 2 drives. An OS one and a recovery partition. Just wondering how I format it back to a single drive?

Checked in disk Management, but not 100% sure what Im doing. So didnt want to go ahead and do something that might mess things up. Sure its straight forward enough, just never did it before.

Thanks.

There is a few (free) things out there to make it easier - with any of them double check you are adjusting the right disk

http://www.partition-tool.com

is one of them - tis grand

segasega · 07-05-2014 7:20pm

Perfect, thanks.

Putting partitions back together.

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