Question Newly formatted drive contents

[RickVS]

I just formatted a 1 TB drive that I removed from a relative's computer. Although my intent was to format the entire drive, and I did, there is still used space (128 Mb) so the whole drive capacity isn't available. I would like to give this drive away but I don't want my personal data to be on it when I do. How do I format 100% of the drive? I would attach an image of what I am looking at however this forum doesn't seem to allow me to do that. Thanks.

 

[punkncat]

Hook to a Windows PC and look here, which may be of help.

diskpart

Reference article for the diskpart command interpreter, which helps you manage your computer's drives.

learn.microsoft.com

 

[CountMike]

I just formatted a 1 TB drive that I removed from a relative's computer. Although my intent was to format the entire drive, and I did, there is still used space (128 Mb) so the whole drive capacity isn't available. I would like to give this drive away but I don't want my personal data to be on it when I do. How do I format 100% of the drive? I would attach an image of what I am looking at however this forum doesn't seem to allow me to do that. Thanks.

Format command formats only a partition it's applied to, a disk used for OS also has other hidden partition(s) so they have to be deleted too,