Need help formatting hard drive please!

[TheBeliskner]

I have a Seagate 1.5 TB portable hard drive and have recently tried to format it. Now I'm not really good with all this tech stuff and I am having problems. The formatting process seems to be stuck in the middle. This is what it looks like on the formatting progress window:

Capacity: 875 GB (Why does it say 875?)

File System: NTFS

Allocation Unit Size: 4096 bytes

Restore Device Defaults

Volume Label: (Left it blank)

Format Options: Quick format and MS-DOS start up disk (Left both unchecked)

Then the progress bar which is seemingly stuck somewhere close to the middle. It hasn't moved for hours now and I'm getting worried. I tried to do a quick format but it says it couldn't be formatted. I need some help

 

[TheBeliskner]

Ok. I'm there. It shows me my system drive and the one we're working with as well as a whole bunch of other things

 

[fantastik250]

Okay, now right click on your 1.5TB HDD. And choose Convert to Primary. Once you did that, right click again and Resize/Move Partition. Then you are able to (hopefully) extend/expand the drive with your mouse if there is space left and right. Click OK and Apply. Then tell me the results.

 

[TheBeliskner]

Ok. I can't seem to expand the drive. There isn't space. I should say that along with my drive there are 5 other partitions (?) I don't know if this affects anything or not but I just thought you should know.

It shows up as my drive, Other, Other, Unallocated space, Other, Unallocated space

 

[TheBeliskner]

Should I merge these other things with my drive? They all appear on disk 2 together

 

[fantastik250]

wow you got a lot of partitions on there lol. Just delete all the "Other." And it should be unallocated after that. Then you will be able to expand it.

 

[TheBeliskner]

Ahhhhhh yes!!! Thank you so much friend!!! It worked! You cannot believe how happy I am right now. Thank you again

 

[TheBeliskner]

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[fantastik250]

No problem, Glad that it worked out for you