Trying to remove all partitions from SSD

[David Williams]

Hi Guys - I have an OCZ Trion 100 960gb SSD (not my primary drive) in my new build. In my previous build I used the drive as my only drive so partitioned it and had windows/games/media on the different partitions. I thought I had removed the partitions and formatted it correctly to return it to a complete 960gb drive again. However, now that I've installed it into my new build it is still showing the partitions - is there any way to remove these and just have a single drive? Many thanks.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

Use the Disk Manager to delete partitions on a drive. Type "diskman" in the start menu and press enter. Make sure you're deleting partitions on the right drive there.
Use right click on each volume/partition and delete until they're all gone.
Create a new partition with the same Disk Manager and format it.
More info on Disk Manager: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/overview-of-disk-management

 

[Tolis_GR]

You can delete partitions using diskpart command with cmd. Don't forget to run cmd as administrator.
diskpart
list disk (here you see all your drives and their size-be very careful to choose the correct drive)
select drive x (i.e x=1,2,3,4)
type again list disk to make sure you selected the correct drive (a * symbol will pop up next to it)
if your drive is empty you can simply type clean, that should erase everything along with partitions
otherwise you can type list partition
then, select partition x (x=1)
delete partition 5
again select partition x (i.e. x=2)
If a partition is protected you may need to type delete partition override
Back up any important files before starting.

 

[David Williams]

Use the Disk Manager to delete partitions on a drive. Type "diskman" in the start menu and press enter. Make sure you're deleting partitions on the right drive there.
Use right click on each volume/partition and delete until they're all gone.
Create a new partition with the same Disk Manager and format it.
More info on Disk Manager: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/overview-of-disk-management

Thank you very much for the quick response - so just to confirm (as i'm probably being stupid) I delete everything on the drive in question using diskman, then click on the drive and make a new partition which should take it back to its original size? thanks.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management?

 

[David Williams]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management?

I will as soon as I'm in from work,thanks

 

[David Williams]

i'm struggling to add an image of disk manager - what's the best way? thanks

 

[USAFRet]

i'm struggling to add an image of disk manager - what's the best way? thanks

Detailed instructions on posting images on Tom's hardware.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2580030/detailed-instructions-posting-images-tom-hardware.html

 

[David Williams]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management?

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO2wKKAKhtWHwtDsPf3wZbHIl9Ur1ohvPERwHX19X-NAcLRp7hUQGwyAJY7AGEX9g?key=RUhRUk5qQ005ampTdW9uNnZmbjBfUE9qVF9UN1hR

Sorry for the delay

 

[David Williams]

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO2wKKAKhtWHwtDsPf3wZbHIl9Ur1ohvPERwHX19X-NAcLRp7hUQGwyAJY7AGEX9g?key=RUhRUk5qQ005ampTdW9uNnZmbjBfUE9qVF9UN1hR

Attached is a picture of all my disks - it is disk 1 that i'm having the issues with and would like to make this a single complete drive, thanks

 

[USAFRet]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management?

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO2wKKAKhtWHwtDsPf3wZbHIl9Ur1ohvPERwHX19X-NAcLRp7hUQGwyAJY7AGEX9g?key=RUhRUk5qQ005ampTdW9uNnZmbjBfUE9qVF9UN1hR

Sorry for the delay

On the currently Unallocated partitions, right click each one and DELETE.

Or, diskpart at the commandine, and clean. That will kill everything on that drive, leaving one large unallocated space.
However, you need to be really, really, really careful. clean on the wrong drive will kill something you don't want killed off.

 

[SkyNetRising]

There are a bunch of recovery partitions and efi system partition. Those can be deleted with diskpart (Disk Management will not allow deleting them).
Diskpart clean - is the fastest option.

• diskpart
  list disk
  select disk 1
  clean
  exit

Clean command is data destructive. Be careful with it.

 

[David Williams]

Many thanks SkyNetRising and USAFRet for your replies.
diskpart has done the trick - really appreciate the help - thanks everyone