How to Format a Hard Drive & Delete Recovery Partitions | Windows 10 | Diskpart Delete Partition

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Mine says can't clean. Server error clean is not allowed on disk containing the current boot system pagefile crash dump or hibernation volume. So what do I do??

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This is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. It was so straight forward. I loved it. Thanks for this great tutorial.

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Love the clean and "right to the point" tutorial. No bs and no unnecessary talk about other stuff.

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[@AshántiCODM]

​@@NorthernVikingEverydayhello, i did all the instruction and cleaned my ssd , then when i open and click mbr or gpt the partition goes back again. I cant format my ssd , please help thank you🙏🥹

[@arisgiavris]

I tried many ways to delete a recovery partition from an external drive. Your instructions are immediate, short, clear, and above all effective! I do not know how to thank you. Aris.

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[@vancecost]

@Northern Viking Everyday I'm 70. I wish I had found your video 7 days ago. I have downloaded about 5 pieces of software trying to get 6 - 4 TB HDD's wiped and reformatted from were I was sending recorded shows from a Dish Hopper 3 to them. I had them pick-up their equipment 4 days ago. I'm disabled, that's why they came to me. I thought I knew a lot on computers since I first used a Tandy TRS-80 Micro Computer System. You are probably one of the top 4 people / person that explains things to were even a old an can understand it. I love the way you go slow and show each step. I did my last 4TB HDD just like you showed and within just minutes it accomplished what the others took about 14 hours each just writing zeros to them and having to do it that way. I have subscribed to your channel. Please keep up these great videos.

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[@mekak.stilldesigns2007]

Out of all the videos I've watched on how to format my external hard drive, this has to be the most comprehensive and effective tutorial I've seen thus far. Thank You, your explanation is greatly appreciated!

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[@GodfatherInOhio]

Dude, YOU ... DUH ... MAN! i'm a former I/T - PC Tech but forgot a lotta this stuff in the four years i've been retired. This helped me considerably. Thank you.

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What some may think is a hard task (my self included ) You made it so simple to follow! So clear and cleanly done. Thanks for getting straight to the point. I've subbed :D

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[@cosmasmagonja6122]

thanks very much

[@NevilleSidhu]

YOUR A LIFESAVER... Man you saved me, after an hour looking it up and reading to download a program to do it. I just didnt wanna do that. Then came across your video and it worked perfectly.... Thank you so much..

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[@larrymoran_THE_CODGER]

June 25, 2022 - This is a GREAT video. The host gets right to the point, and explains each step clearly and carefully. While he wants to build a following for his videos, he sticks to business without any extra chat. I wish there were a way that I could help people avoid the other lengthy and confusing videos on the same topic. I am going to post this link with my review of the SanDisk SSDs I purchased through Amazon if they let me. One thing that the host doesn't mention, is that in Windows 10 (AND Windows 11?), you MUST select GPT, in stead of MBR when given the option if you are formatting a drive larger than 2 TB. I hope the host will add that to a future version of this video.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

I appreciate the kind words and thanks for the tip on the 2 TB drive.👍

[@larrymoran_THE_CODGER]

@@NorthernVikingEveryday June 25, 2022 - You are most welcome sir. Credit where credit is due👍👍. I look forward to viewing your other video tutorials as time permits. As promised, I did include the link to this video in my review of the two hard drives I purchased from Amazon. You might want to consider finding a way to have some of your videos posted along with product reviews on the Amazon product pages. I’m no newbie, but I bought spinning disk hard drives when I actually wanted SSD external drives. In any event, thank you for letting me know that you saw, and liked my comments. I assume back in 2020 hard drives of over 2 Terabytes weren’t very common. Which probably explains why you didn’t discuss it. As the Trekkies say, “Live long and prosper, sir.🖖 ”😊

[@pastle2007]

Excellent video, cant stress enough how good this was explained, saved me hours of risking infections, by installing dodgey free software. I was able to clean my 500 gb ssd in seconds. Thank mate your a true ledgend. I subbed too. You taught an old dog a new trick with this video. Thanks!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@kingsleyadusei7606]

THANKS A MILLION..i spend the whole night from 7pm to 5am till i found your tutorial,,,you brought me a simple solution to me and im greatfull

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[@UTU]

after quite a few searches I have to thank you for the best and simplest fix to all of my issues

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[@hudbaoir3610]

OMG THIS WORKED THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Amazing tutorial! note: I had to delete the middle volume first, in order for the 'clean' command to work

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Easy to follow and to the point, thats great you earned my sub, thank you

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Awesome, thank you!

[@mj1s735]

Great information, simple and to the point. I also like how you showed us how to verify that we were on the correct partition before it was deleted. About the only way it could have been any simpler would be for you to be at our computer and show us the steps in person!

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[@michaelharpur5814]

Really great tutorial, I always get stuck with the recovery partitions on redeployed laptop SSDs. You could not have articulated this better. Thank you!

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[@Olbear040]

That was just what I needed. Unlike a dozen other videos that lead me astray.

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[@Monica111960]

Brilliant! l have been looking for hours on youtube. I followed your instructions and in 5 minutes my external hard drive is clean and ready to be used. Thanks!

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[@paologianono2539]

dude, you just save my life. i have an 8TB SEAGATE EXOS, which was giving me problems.....WATCHING YOUR VIDEO SOLVED IT. THANK YOU........

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[@chrisfrazier1209]

So many videos watched to try to figure out how to get a used hard drive to work, this was awesome step by step took me five minutes and my hard drive is ready to use thank you!

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[@JoelLoej]

Just got my external hard drive, accidentally deleted all the files. You helped me fix it! You earnt a new like and sub!

[@1cjim]

Thanks!

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[@witness2Kmobile]

I’ve watching ton of videos to fix this and out of the over 30 videos I’ve watched only this worked ✅ thanks so much buddy

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[@toddm394]

You made it so simple even an old man like me can understand. I did have to replay certain sections a couple of times I'm not real fast when I type and can't remember what was said. You have a new subscriber thanks again

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[@asirokz]

Thanks a lot man. Got 2 Health partition on my old laptop HDD which I connected as an external drive on windows 11 and got it working with your video. Once again Thank You.

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[@williamlindsey2048]

Listen I watched at least 50 to 60 videos. I said what the hell one more and I found yours O. M, g, you made it very simple, thank you

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[@cetycon2613]

THANK YOU!!! I had downloaded a Windows 10 install on my hard drive, and I panicked when the drive reformatted from 465gb to 32gb 😰 Luckily i backed up all my files beforehand (and didn't have many important files). I followed all your steps and now the unallocated space is usable!

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[@chrisnichols2479]

l have been wanting to do this for a long time but never knew how to do it, Thank you for your very simple and straight forward explanation of the process. l have just updated to Widows 11 and the Power shield is now Named Windows Terminal. l will be looking out for more of your video's as there is so much for me to learn thanks again.

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Thank you soooo much I been trying to do this for a long time!

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I dont know the reason, but your explanation opens my mind, so I solve the problem despite it being not mentioned directly in this video. Great explaining thanks

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[@lmtube100]

Thanks! Just when I needed to delete, and without rummaging through my notes, your tutorial did the heavy loading, in a fraction of time! Thanks again!!!

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Thanks so much! I've wasted 3hours trying to install W7 on a new laptop. This really helped. 🎉

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Great video. Best I could find. Simple to to get full use of my 3TB HDD as an external backup drive after removing it from an older PC. You really earned my thumbs up and subscribe!!

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Just the state forward easy to understand the information I am looking for. your channel rocks!

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[@raiznsisig]

Thanks for the tutorial. I never learned this at school and never once needed to do before, so when installed a new m.2 ssd as my bootdrive and merge the old sata ssd into one drive, I've started getting the *There Is Not Enough Space Available On The Disk(s) To Complete This Operation* even after formatting both partition. Now I was able to properly clean it and create the drive as one thanks :D

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[@rogtech8]

Thanks so much. Worked great and accomplished exactly what I wanted without having me watch a 20 minute video. Subbed!

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[@nalarotbh9953]

your a star thanks , had problems on not getting into a locked out partition that was 3.5GB into a 6GB external HDD and you helped alot , thanks

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[@srs315]

Easy peasy. Using Windows 11 but the instructions were close enough to get it done. Appreciate your knowledge and sharing!

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[@richardcontreras3230]

You made my cares go away with this video. I had a 3TB HDD with a protected GPT and another with Unallocated space. on same drive. I am a very happy camper . I watched you walk me through the process and it was very easy. Thank You!

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Easy and Clear instructions. The Best and Greatest!!

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This is the best tutorial ever !! Thank you very much!!! Very professional!

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This was so simple. I took some old drives to repurpose, and this video helped immensely. Subbed.

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[@soonersciencenerd383]

a couple of hours ago, i almost junked my hard drive, but i connected it to my cell phone, and it asked if i wanted to format my usb connected hard drive. i did, 5 seconds later, i had a new hard drive, with 553 G of space!! its worth a try...

[@jsimpson4]

Fantastic video! Ty for the help.

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[@angelabranson363]

Thank you, that was easy and straight forward. I appreciate this so much! I had an 8TB drive that was set up in a ton of segments previously with a Linux build on it. I wanted to use it as back up storage and now I can!

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Thank you so much brother. I've been watching so many videos but not work until I found this best one

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[@Dennisg9987]

Thanks! I was in disk partition jungle till I found your video...simple, worked great! Thanks.

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Concise, accurate, to the point, no nonsense

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[@calebnunn6029]

Thank you so much. I have been struggling with a ssd for about a week and came across this video and this worked perfectly.

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[@paddywalker5618]

Great stuff. Had no luck with google for this process; this video was absolutely perfect. Many thanks.

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[@aruu2740]

thank you so so much i cant even begin how much i have suffered because i wasnt able to download anything even though i had a hdd so thank you

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[@lstanford23]

Thank for your the information. That video was quick, sort, and to the point. Exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks again. Thumbs up!.

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[@damonking7814]

Thank you so much, after watching 47 different videos and desperately not wanting to download partition software you got me sorted out in 5 minutes flat, thank you!!!! P.S. Subscribed & Liked.

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Thanks this tutorial really helped a lot on me... mabuhay to your blog.. many thanks and God bless...

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Saved my life my brother, God bless you

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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thank you for making this very simple and straight forward worked first time.

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watched soo many videos but this one solved my problem

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Great video. I was having trouble with disk management

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Thank you for posting this and providing very clear instructions

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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Thank you sir, it worked. I was so stressed and I'm happy that I clicked on your video.

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[@guitarbytes]

That was explained extremely well. Some of the vids on youtube just confuse you, but this was excellent, thanks.

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You Sir are a Genius - Thank you for your help - I was really stuck until you helped me.

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This video was beneficial. I thought I'd just have to buy a new one if it wasn't for you. Thank you!

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Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. The video is perfect, and explains everything, thank you so much!

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Thank you so much man! I've been looking for something like this for 2 days.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@eldritchfrog]

Thank you for this tutorial. It also worked on windows 11 if anyone is wondering :)

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Glad it helped!

[@timothyreynolds6255]

I walked through the process with you. Perfect length, timing, etc. Thanks so much!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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Outstanding tutorial. Well made and bailed me out!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@erikhalliday]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have spent hours trying to get my dynamic drive back and mostly I ran into someone wanting money. | can't say enough about your video.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@alisterdavis4100]

Great video, easy to follow. I have Windows 10. Started off with some trepidation, but just followed your steps. I DID follow your advice and backed up the files first! It did lead me to open up another powershell (C:\WINDOWS\system32\diskpart.exe) but the steps, and the final result were the same.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@aliwashere81]

Thank you. Worked perfectly and video was straight to the point and easy to follow along. Thank you so much!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@Romulus_YT]

Thank you so much! Very easy to follow, and saved me the headache of those 20 wasted recovery GB for the Linux gaming project I'm working on 🙌🙌

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Glad it helped!

[@mmswami1212]

you are such amazing no one showed this simple sollution

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@masoni01]

Beautiful, simple succinct tutorial. Worked wonders, thank you :)

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@crgwebb1]

Easy to follow instructions that worked perfectly!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Great to hear!

[@leosibbi1818]

Excellent, You are life saver, Great Help... Thanks for such a wonderful easy tutorial.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@10X-Trivia-Sean]

thanks! finally got my 14tb back up drive up and running!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@MagnoliaDee]

Thought it was going to be a looooonnnnggg procedure... Excellent tutorial! Thx

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@joseluna6262]

Awesome man, pretty simple and straight forward!!

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Perfect 👌 Glad I could help.

[@driverschronicle]

Thanks a lot, I was just clueless of how to deal with my new 4TB Hard Disk

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@driverschronicle]

@@NorthernVikingEveryday I purchased a new 4tb HDD, copied all my data in it. Next day i selected one of the partitions in the external HDD and made it as a recovery drive. But unfortunately entire HDD data was not there and 4tb HDD became 32 GB HDD. So i was very disappointed and tried everything cdnt recover but with with your video atleast i got my 4tb back.

[@absurddive]

I completely forgot how to do this hahaha Thank you for this quick vid man ! ! ! ! ! !

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Happy to help!

[@walterkoonce5933]

Thanks my brother this was so simple. Keep up the good work.

[@blackvulcan3]

Nice. Thank you Viking, this worked really well and was really simple. I had the same scenario and whilst I was confident I could do it myself, I wanted to do it correctly. Thanks again.

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[@roverzilla]

that's the way you do a tutorial . clear correct infomation. thanks

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@sgvpotter]

Dude! That was awesome!!! Thank You for the great vid

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[@slagsleutel]

My Sd was 32 instead 64. I am glad i found this video

[@ralphhudson8649]

Well done, thanks. What is the difference between "clean" and "clean all"?

[@C6Z06J]

Thanks for the help! Your delivery made this easy to understand and follow.

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

Glad to hear it!

[@carolm7759]

Very Helpful, made for a very easy job. Thank you

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

I am in Kelowna. Not to far from you. 🤗🇨🇦

[@ChrisSinclaire]

An excellent video. Clear, concise and very easy to follow. Worked exactly as described. Thanks so much for making this video!

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[@roysjudy]

Subscribed! So easy, thanks so much!

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[@swaminathanprabaharan2614]

Much Helpful.. Simple and Awesome~

[@NorthernVikingEveryday]

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[@oriokiko3216]

i will try this when im not busy, im struggling yesterday about this issues, i cant delete or format my other ssd because theres a windows on it, its always shows its in use. ill try this one and come back later after doing this video. thanks.

[@SouthSidePhoenix]

Perfect instructions and easy to follow right to the point👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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