External Drive Question (Page 2): Have you tried AOMEI partition assistant, the free version? You might be able to delete the small partition and then extend the large one.

clemente21

Have you tried AOMEI partition assistant, the free version? You might be able to delete the small partition and then extend the large one.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

clemente21 wrote:

Have you tried AOMEI partition assistant, the free version? You might be able to delete the small partition and then extend the large one.

Thanks. I'll take a look.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

therwol wrote:

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All the times everyone laughed at people with tin-foil hats and covering their windows… turns out they were right all along, just ahead of their time in understanding the problems.

I have a semi-truck load of tin foil on the way. There is a delay… many other UHHers ordered before me.

In the electronic intelligence community it was common to have walls completely covered with interconnected metal (pressed wood panels with metal on both sides). I have worked in “screen-rooms”… completely surrounded by copper screening… to prevent signals.. in either direction.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

jerryc41 wrote:

I have a 750GB drive that was used on a Mac, and I'd like to use it on a Windows machine. Using Disk Management, I was able to delete the main partition and format it in my Dell. There is a bit left over - 200MB - that I cannot access. Is there a way to delete whatever the Mac put there so I can use the entire drive? Diskpart doesn't seem to offer a solution. It shows the 698GB drive.

1st… move or back up any data on that drive… BOTH SECTIONS/VOLUMES…

… trying to remember the terminology… but…

… then I think In the screen you show a picture of … you can right click on each of the sections/volumes and delete/erase… you end up with 1 unused space which you allocate it as 1 partition/volume and format it (again from that same screen)

therwol Loc: USA

KillroyII wrote:

1st… move or back up any data on that drive… BOTH SECTIONS/VOLUMES…

… trying to remember the terminology… but…

… then I think In the screen you show a picture of … you can right click on each of the sections/volumes and delete/erase… you end up with 1 unused space which you allocate it as 1 partition/volume and format it (again from that same screen)

The small volume shown is a system volume that can't be deleted in disc management. It can be deleted in Windows through an administrator command prompt and following the instructions in the link I provided earlier. Another suggestion was to try to delete it on a Mac. Volumes like this show up if there is actually an operating system on a drive. They serve no purpose on a drive intended for storage.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

therwol wrote:

The small volume shown is a system volume that can't be deleted in disc management. It can be deleted in Windows through an administrator command prompt and following the instructions in the link I provided earlier. Another suggestion was to try to delete it on a Mac. Volumes like this show up if there is actually an operating system on a drive. They serve no purpose on a drive intended for storage.

Thanks... I copied your previous reply, and link, so if I ever run it to that I will have the solution. A question... is that only for drives from a Mac?

Could be my fading memory but I changed out a drive and updated an operating system on a, either HP of Dell machine, and they had a small partition (that was to recover the, now undesired, operating system which was made unnecessary with my changes)... and I thought I got rid of it in Windows.

I do remember the DOS days, and early Windows, using the utilities for partitioning and formatting.

therwol Loc: USA

KillroyII wrote:

Thanks... I copied your previous reply, and link, ... (show quote)

I have little experience with Macs other than installing software. In Windows, installing the OS will result in 1 or 2 small partitions that contain files that are off limits to the user. New computers may also have the files to restore a computer to the original factory state in a hidden partition. You can get rid of all of this during a clean install of Windows, but you'll get back one or two small partitions during the process. I have repurposed hard drives for storage. I seem to recall at least one occasion where I couldn't get rid of a small partition, and used the command prompt method.