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    Formatting HDD and Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by tphilly1984, Aug 20, 2008.

  1. tphilly1984

    tphilly1984 Notebook Evangelist

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    OK this may be complicated so bare with me!

    I've got a new hd, so i install it, everything ok.
    My old hdd goes into my girlfriends vaio, everything ok
    Now, her old hard drive, i've got plugged in by esata. I can see it fine but my problem is that I can't find a way to delete the recovery partition, as well as format the hdd so it doesnt have any partitions. (now it has C:, D: and recovery)

    Thanks in advance
     
    tphilly1984, Aug 20, 2008
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  2. Gregory

    Gregory disassemble?

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    Finding the drive in Explorer and right-clicking and hitting 'format' is the easiest way. If that for some reason isn't available to you, you can use the 'Disk Management' tool in Windows. If that again isn't available to you you can type into a command prompt 'format c:' then d: then the numerical label for the recovery partition. If all that isn't working, you can always download GPARTED and format the whole disk and create any partitions you like.
     
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  3. tphilly1984

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    thanks gregory, doing it in disk management tool
     
    tphilly1984, Aug 20, 2008
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