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Removing Reserved Area From Old HDD

Chrishazle

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<div class="bbWrapper">Have today uninstalled the old HDD from a friend's PC, it was/is 500GB previously partitioned about 150GB primary C drive and 350GB Data secondary HDD. After installing the new SSD and transferring the Data drive contents to the newly installed 1Tb HDD I deleted the old partitions on the 500Gb HDD but am left with a partition in the middle which, according to Windows 10 disk management, is a system recovery area, and when in disc management I right click on it, instead of options to delete it etc, all I get is &quot;Help&quot; which takes me to effectivly Google Search! How the **** do I get rid of this so I can make the drive a single 500Gb partition, re-format it and use it as the drive Windows 10 uses for backups? Fortunately the PC now boots happily from the new SSD and his data is available on the new E drive partition (DVD drive is D!) so all that part of the upgrade has worked well, I just need to get rid of this annoying section in the middle of his old HDD! ATM it is still in his PC, but if necessary it's easily removed and installed into my USB docking station, which we used to clone his old C drive (via Macrium) to the new SSD before installing it.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Use a third party partition manager (not the Windows' built-in one).</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">E.g.:<br /> <br /> <div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--unfurl js-unfurl fauxBlockLink" data-unfurl="true" data-result-id="12811" data-url="https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html" data-host="www.diskpart.com" data-pending="false"> <div class="contentRow"> <div class="contentRow-main"> <h3 class="contentRow-header js-unfurl-title"> <a href="https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html" class="link link--external fauxBlockLink-blockLink" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-proxy-href=""> Free Partition Manager Software for Windows 11/10/8/7 | AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard </a> </h3> <div class="contentRow-snippet js-unfurl-desc">As one of the best free hard disk partition manager software for Windows 11/10/8/7, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard enables you to manage hard drives and partitions for peak performance, while ensuring the safety of your data.</div> <div class="contentRow-minor contentRow-minor--hideLinks"> <span class="js-unfurl-favicon"> </span> www.diskpart.com </div> </div> </div> </div> <br /> But there are also many others.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 28583" data-quote="moonloops" data-source="post: 3052688" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=3052688" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-3052688">moonloops said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Or use windows command line utility diskpart </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> I started my career with CLI.... GUI came-in much much later <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 19590" data-quote="markjay" data-source="post: 3052700" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=3052700" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-3052700">markjay said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I started my career with CLI.... GUI came-in much much later <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> CPM for the win <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--unfurl js-unfurl fauxBlockLink" data-unfurl="true" data-result-id="12812" data-url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#:~:text=CP%2FM%2C%20originally%20standing%20for,Kildall%20of%20Digital%20Research%2C%20Inc." data-host="en.wikipedia.org" data-pending="false"> <div class="contentRow"> <div class="contentRow-figure contentRow-figure--fixedSmall js-unfurl-figure"> <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/CPM-86.png" loading="lazy" alt="en.wikipedia.org" class="bbCodeBlockUnfurl-image" data-onerror="hide-parent"/> </div> <div class="contentRow-main"> <h3 class="contentRow-header js-unfurl-title"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#:~:text=CP%2FM%2C%20originally%20standing%20for,Kildall%20of%20Digital%20Research%2C%20Inc." class="link link--external fauxBlockLink-blockLink" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-proxy-href=""> CP/M - Wikipedia </a> </h3> <div class="contentRow-snippet js-unfurl-desc"></div> <div class="contentRow-minor contentRow-minor--hideLinks"> <span class="js-unfurl-favicon"> <img src="https://en.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico" loading="lazy" alt="en.wikipedia.org" class="bbCodeBlockUnfurl-icon" data-onerror="hide-parent"/> </span> en.wikipedia.org </div> </div> </div> </div></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 28583" data-quote="moonloops" data-source="post: 3052702" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=3052702" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-3052702">moonloops said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> CPM for the win <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--unfurl js-unfurl fauxBlockLink" data-unfurl="true" data-result-id="12812" data-url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#:~:text=CP%2FM%2C%20originally%20standing%20for,Kildall%20of%20Digital%20Research%2C%20Inc." data-host="en.wikipedia.org" data-pending="false"> <div class="contentRow"> <div class="contentRow-figure contentRow-figure--fixedSmall js-unfurl-figure"> <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/CPM-86.png" loading="lazy" alt="en.wikipedia.org" class="bbCodeBlockUnfurl-image" data-onerror="hide-parent"/> </div> <div class="contentRow-main"> <h3 class="contentRow-header js-unfurl-title"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#:~:text=CP%2FM%2C%20originally%20standing%20for,Kildall%20of%20Digital%20Research%2C%20Inc." class="link link--external fauxBlockLink-blockLink" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-proxy-href=""> CP/M - Wikipedia </a> </h3> <div class="contentRow-snippet js-unfurl-desc"></div> <div class="contentRow-minor contentRow-minor--hideLinks"> <span class="js-unfurl-favicon"> <img src="https://en.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico" loading="lazy" alt="en.wikipedia.org" class="bbCodeBlockUnfurl-icon" data-onerror="hide-parent"/> </span> en.wikipedia.org </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Ha ha... CP/M... yes, good old Intel 8088. <br /> <br /> Also... IBM 360/370... Fortran, Cobol, Algol... punchcards and teletypes....<br /> <br /> And, Mostek 64k with 8&quot; floppies - a marvel of technology!..<br /> <br /> It's all coming back to me now<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">thanks gentlemen, I'll let you know how I get on - the built in Windows Disk Management was useless, but it may be a few days before I can try my luck again on Julian's PC!</div>
 
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