Removing the partition/logical drive from HD

dcb91 · 08-06-2007, 08:43 PM

i just bought a used 80gb SATA HD at a flea market. this drive is just going to be my secondary and my copy of XP isnt installed on it. the drive works fine but has 3 partitions/logical drives on it. one is for windows, and the other two are for some programs. i want to delete the partitions and just have the bare drive, as one HD, not split up. it is split up like this:
SYSTEM - 10GB - Primary Partition
BOOTDRV - 40GB - Extended Partition/Logical Drive
MATRIX - 24.52GB - Extended Partition/Logical Drive

if i go into Computer Management and the delete the partitions that way, what will become of the space they held?

Burgerbob · 08-06-2007, 10:04 PM

You will just have to format the entire drive again after you delete the partitions, its not too hard. Dont worry, you wont lose any space.

dcb91 · 08-07-2007, 04:02 AM

alright great, thanks much

08-06-2007, 08:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
dcb91 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 96	Removing the partition/logical drive from HD i just bought a used 80gb SATA HD at a flea market. this drive is just going to be my secondary and my copy of XP isnt installed on it. the drive works fine but has 3 partitions/logical drives on it. one is for windows, and the other two are for some programs. i want to delete the partitions and just have the bare drive, as one HD, not split up. it is split up like this: SYSTEM - 10GB - Primary Partition BOOTDRV - 40GB - Extended Partition/Logical Drive MATRIX - 24.52GB - Extended Partition/Logical Drive if i go into Computer Management and the delete the partitions that way, what will become of the space they held? __________________ Case: Cooler Master NV690 Motherboard: XFX 780i CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 Optical: ASUS SATA DVD Drive RAM: Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2 1066 GPU: EVGA 8800GT

08-06-2007, 10:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 19 Posts: 2,532	You will just have to format the entire drive again after you delete the partitions, its not too hard. Dont worry, you wont lose any space. __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate, 500GB WD, eVGA 8800GT Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G Dell Inspiron 6000 Windows 7!

08-07-2007, 04:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
dcb91 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 96	alright great, thanks much __________________ Case: Cooler Master NV690 Motherboard: XFX 780i CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 Optical: ASUS SATA DVD Drive RAM: Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2 1066 GPU: EVGA 8800GT

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