How can I reset my hard drive?

Ge
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My laptop went kapput. There was nothing to save and performance engineering was no longer enough. Since I bought myself a tower or a normal PC.

Now is the following. I took my laptop apart and put the hard drive out and put it back in my PC.

Now it shows me that I only have 500 GB on this hard drive. But when my laptop was still running, I split the volume in 2. Now I only have access to the 2 part of the disk and 1 access only to 100 mb from 1TB.

Overall, I now have 4 disks in my PC. The initial disk and the retrofitted. Now the 2 were created by the removal and installation of the laptop. But there are 500 GB missing from the laptop.

Now the question, how can I reset my data carrier so that I have the 1TB again.

Im

Repartitioning and formatting

Gr

You can delete the "old" partitions of your hard disk in the disk management of WIndows and make it a big one.

pa

Since your laptop has broken, and you have your Windows and thus the partitions on the hard drive not properly deleted / formatted, are on your hard disk more partitions available. You need to completely repartition and format the disk (if you do not use it as a C: \ disk, that is where Windows is installed). You do that by going to the system settings and going to the partition manager from there. Here you are looking for your hard drive. This would have to be divided into several "compartments". You delete them all, reformat them (NTFS) and give the disk a new volume (F, or D or whatever, but not like another one). So you have deleted the many partitions on the hard drive and have again "a whole".

Ge

Thanks for the answer but I did not understand your path with system settings and partition manager. But I solved it myself in which I command

pa

You go to the system settings (Can you find on Windows search) and enter in the search bar in the system settings in the top right "Partitions Manager".

Ge

Can it be that you use a different operating system? XD

pa

Windows 10: D I'll send you a quick video for understanding

Ge

That explains some xD I have windows 7. Then it may be that renamed it or has another name. Nevertheless, thank you. I already solved it.