[SOLVED] Windows USB Recovery Partition Issue

[NA_Colin]

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

 

[USAFRet]

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.

 

[NA_Colin]

What "drive" did you use for this install?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window, showing all drives involved.

Not gonna lie, I am not aware of the conventions of posting images here since it asks me for a link, how would I go about doing this?

 

[USAFRet]

Not gonna lie, I am not aware of the conventions of posting images here since it asks me for a link, how would I go about doing this?

Upload your pic to imgur.com, and post the link here.

 

[NA_Colin]

I have no idea why the image thing here does not work for me but here is the link

https://imgur.com/a/MIZCwFn

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/MIZCwFn

The disk that I am having an issue with is a portable disk drive, labeled as disk 2 in the image.

 

[SkyNetRising]

5TB drive has to be partitioned in GPT for all capacity to become available.
You have it partitioned as MBR.

Delete partition D : .
Right-click on disk (where it says Basic) and choose Convert to GPT.
Then create a new partition spanning whole disk.

 

[USAFRet]

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.

 

[NA_Colin]

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?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Also, why is it that what I had did not work, just out of curiosity?

MBR limitations.

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/mbr-vs-gpt/