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October 9th, 2014 09:00
Recovering all space on factory C drive
Yesterday I got an XPS 8700, and stuck a 256Gb mSATA in there, and just got done installing Windows 8.1 on there. That went pretty smoothly, actually.
Now that I'm done and the computer is booting from the SSD, I now want to recover all the stuff from what used to be Drive C. So I fired up Disk Management, and it is still showing me the 1TB drive in there as "Disk 0" partitioned the same way as the SSD is - see the attachment.
Question is how do I reformat that Disk 0 to be nothing but on giant data partition? I don't need all those other ones anymore. A bit unclear on how to do that. Tkx.
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Joe Siegler
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October 9th, 2014 12:00
Had to go to a command prompt.
DISKPART
select Disk 0
clean
That blew out the config and let me reformat it as one giant drive.
ejn63
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October 9th, 2014 10:00
Open the disc manager (control panel - admin tools - computer management- disc management)
Remove all the existing parititons and create a single, new one. Format and done.
Joe Siegler
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October 9th, 2014 12:00
Well, yeah, if it was as simple as that, then I wouldn't be asking. Look at the picture linked to.
Other than the area that is "Primary Partition", none of them seem to be anything I can do anything with. When I try doing anything with any of the other partitions on "Disk 0", there are no options available to me, they're all greyed out.
haveadell
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October 9th, 2014 19:00
Go here and use the diskpart dos command - works like a champ I did it on a 2 gig usb drive and reallocated the full drive as one partition
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html