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Can someone please explain to me how to reformat a disk using Disk Management so that there is only one partition on the drive? If you look at my screenshot, I want to reformat ‘Disk 2’ so that it looks just like ‘Disk 1’, as in it has just one partition for the whole drive. My D drive (disk 1) contains data only. Disk 2 will contain just data as well.
The disk I’m wanting to format was previously used as my ‘C’ drive and therefore had Windows 10 on it.
Merge Partitions with Didk Management and then format the drive.
https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/combine-partitions-windows-10-free.html
Or use the free
MiniTool Partition Wizard.
To my knowledge you can’t merge partitions in Disk Management.
Agreed. But, you can delete several existing partitions, and then create a new one that uses all the contiguous space freed by deleting the old partitions.
So, yeah. More steps and the new partition will be empty – some of the more advanced tools might let you keep the contents in a “merge” at least in some situations.
Disk Management will let you delete all existing partitions and then create a new one. No need for 3rd party software.
cheers, Paul
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