[SOLVED] I messed up my SSD help

[needssdhelp]

Hello! today I bought a new nvme 500GB SSD, installed it and everything worked just fine. Afterwards, I wanted to clone the drive (120GB 5 yr old ssd) which currently hosts my os to the new drive. I did it and it worked but it partitioned my new drive into 3 partitions for some reason and that really bothered me. So I decided to boot up my system from the old SSD, and remove all the partitions from the new SSD. However, I couldn't do it for some reason, and now my SSD is split into 3 partitions, one (561MB, called "recovery") which I can't even remove and 2 different partitions which I cant unite.
Please help me, I think I messed it up really hard ):
Thank you.
this is how my new SSD looks in disk management

https://imgur.com/a/Y9EISYJ

 

[RealBeast]

The easiest thing to do is just unallocate the new drive, then reallocate and reformat as a basic disk (i.e. not dynamic). Then use the free version of Macrium Reflect to clone your current drive and extend the partition to fill the space of the new drive.

If you have further questions, please provide additional information -- what OS are you running and what is the model of your motherboard?

 

[needssdhelp]

The easiest thing to do is just unallocate the new drive, then reallocate and reformat as a basic disk (i.e. not dynamic). Then use the free version of Macrium Reflect to clone your current drive and extend the partition to fill the space of the new drive.

If you have further questions, please provide additional information -- what OS are you running and what is the model of your motherboard?

Hey, thanks for answering. I can't unallocate the drive because I can't remove the recovery partition. Do you know how to remove it?
Im running Windows 10 and my motherboard is Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF.

 

[needssdhelp]

Glad to say I managed to fix the issue. I managed to delete the recovery partition using CMD and I also found out why I couldn't allocate more space when using Macrium - Apparently, you have to adjust the amount of space on the drive partition BEFORE you add the recovery allocation.

 

[RealBeast]

Hey, thanks for answering. I can't unallocate the drive because I can't remove the recovery partition. Do you know how to remove it?
Im running Windows 10 and my motherboard is Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF.

Sure, since it is not the OS drive you can open an elevated command prompt (rigth click run as admin) and type:
diskpart <enter>
list disk <enter>
select disk n (where n is the messed up drive) <enter>
detail disk n (where n is the messed up drive) <enter>
select volume = x (where x is each volume on the disk one at a time) <enter>
## after all volumes are deleted (so all 3) continue with
select disk n (where n is the messed up drive) <enter>
convert basic <enter>
clean <enter>
convert gpt <enter>
Then you can clone to it or just do a clean install.