Random drive showing up in windows explorer?

[REDcharry]

So I installed a new SSD on my pc and I installed a fresh copy of windows 10 on it. I deleted the recovery drive(I think I failed to do it correctly) that came pre-installed with my old HDD and I also deleted the windows and users folder from my HDD(I don't think thats the correct way to uninstall windows) . Now the problem is this stupid drive thingy won't go way.

I tried to create a simple volume in the unallocated space. It gave me this error

I like to keep things clean on my pc and this is bothering me alot. Help will be appreciated!

 

[wpgwpg]

Personally I'd consider those partitions too small to worry about, but if it's really bothering you a lot, you can always format the drives, then disconnect the HDD and reinstall on the SDD. There are 3rd party programs that're more capable than the Windows supplied Administrative Tools, Easeus Partition Manager is a good free one you might want to try, but it's not readily apparent to the casual observer which partitions are critical to your being able to boot.

 

[br00n0]

What I do with all my PC's is boot with a Windows 10 USB Installation Media.

Using the setup program, I delete *every* partition from *every* drive so I'm left with empty drive(s).

(make backups first, of course!)

Having dozens of unknown partitions bothers me too so with every Windows re-install, I wipe them all.
You can always get your manufacturer specific drivers later, without installing all the bloatware.

When I install a new SSD, sometimes the remaining HDD has partitions impossible to delete for whatever reasons. In that case, I still boot on the SSD and use the DISKPART command-line tool to delete the remaining partitions from the HDD.

Good luck!