[SOLVED] Windows USB Recovery Partition Issue

May 25, 2022
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Hello,
I recently used a new disk drive of mines to install windows on my new PC. I tried to wipe it to get it back to normal using the disk manager but for some reason, it always stays in two partitions, and I cannot merge the two together, even when I tried to reformat it (NTFS, basic??). What should I do to be able to access the entirety of my drive in a single partition? Thanks
 
Solution
Disk 2?
That is partitioned as MBR. Which only allows a 2.2TB partition.

Delete all partitions, reformat as GPT. This will allow accessing the whole drive.

USAFRet

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Hello,
I recently used a new disk drive of mines to install windows on my new PC. I tried to wipe it to get it back to normal using the disk manager but for some reason, it always stays in two partitions, and I cannot merge the two together, even when I tried to reformat it (NTFS, basic??). What should I do to be able to access the entirety of my drive in a single partition? Thanks
What "drive" did you use for this install?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window, showing all drives involved.
 
May 25, 2022
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Wow that was really easy, thanks! Just making sure, does it need to be NTFS with the default allocation unit size? Also, why is it that what I had did not work, just out of curiosity?