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Thread: Best way to flatten & format a drive?

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    Best way to flatten & format a drive?

    I used Hard Disk Manager 15 to migrate my C: drive over to an SSD, and now I want to format the old C: drive, but it is partitioned. What is the easiest way to create one contiguous NTFS space on this drive for other uses?

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    Re: Best way to flatten & format a drive?

    It's possible to start "wipe" the disk in HDM15, to interrupt after a few seconds and then create and format a partition on the hdd.
    It's possible do in cmd. Run cmd as an administrator.
    diskpart
    list disk

    Choose your old drive, eg 2
    select disk 2
    clean

    then you can start HDM15 and then create a partition with it. or continue cmd.
    if the hdd is more than 2 TB, you need to convert it to GPT
    convert gpt
    Next
    create partition primary
    select partition 1
    format quick fs=ntfs

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