[SOLVED] How to Format a drive completely in 'Disk Management' ?

[honestlyok]

I want to format a drive (with an os installed) in disk management, but i can't remove both healthy (EFI System) and Healthy (Recovery Partition).
How to format it completely? i can do it via OS installer but i am afraid i will missclick and format my main OS.
Thank you.

 

[USAFRet]

What will be the use of this drive after?

Please show us the rest of your Disk Management window.

Have you verified 100% that the system boots without this drive?

 

[SkyNetRising]

I want to format a drive (with an os installed) in disk management, but i can't remove both healthy (EFI System) and Healthy (Recovery Partition).

Getting rid of EFI System partition, if you have no other bootloader in your system,
will result in system becoming unbootable.

Are you sure, you want to do that?

Recovery partition you can delete with diskpart

diskpart​

select disk 3​

select partition x​

(select 509MB recovery partition, x=3 or x=4 or x=5)​

delete partition override​

 

[honestlyok]

What will be the use of this drive after?

Please show us the rest of your Disk Management window.

Have you verified 100% that the system boots without this drive?

i just want to use as back up folder of my photos and some small files

 

[honestlyok]

Getting rid of EFI System partition, if you have no other bootloader in your system,
will result in system becoming unbootable.

Are you sure, you want to do that?

Recovery partition you can delete with diskpart

diskpart​

select disk 3​

select partition x​

(select 509MB recovery partition, x=3 or x=4)​

delete partition override​

no, it is not part of my main OS, i just took the drive from my laptop to use it on my desktop PC.

 

[SkyNetRising]

no, it is not part of my main OS, i just took the drive from my laptop to use it on my desktop PC.
i just want to use as back up folder of my photos and some small files

Just clean the drive.
It will delete all partitioning and data from it.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 3​

clean​

 

[USAFRet]

no, it is not part of my main OS, i just took the drive from my laptop to use it on my desktop PC.

If you are 100% sure the system boots up without this 120GB drive, commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.

Be absolutely sure which drive you're accessing. clean is a one way street.

 

[honestlyok]

Just clean the drive.
It will delete all partitioning and data from it.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 3​

clean​

i was about to do it first but i was abit paranoid, i just did it since u helped to ensure it is the disk 3 to clean , thanks

If you are 100% sure the system boots up without this 120GB drive, commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.

Be absolutely sure which drive you're accessing. clean is a one way street.

i just did it, thanks by the way, if only i could choose two answers as the best answer