Need to initialise & format 1TB HDD Windows 10

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DeonH

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Hi there.
I have an old 1TB HDD I need to format correct.

It was the Secondary drive in our server.
Old school was to run fdisk, remove/delete all partitions and create a new partition and format it ... straight forward.

To me this will also be a secondary drive. I deleted everything I could until there was nothing. I created a new volume and formatted it and had a drive letter assigned to it.
BUT, now there's a "System Volume Information" that eats up 1.33GB which I need.

Can anyone please help me out?

Thank you so long.
 
Why do you need the 1.33GB? You're suppose to have 15% of the drive free for page filing etc... purposes.
 
Delete your least favorite pron movie and you will have enough space.

Maybe the midget lesbian fury one.
 
Open a command prompt->type "diskpart"->hit enter. Then type "list disk". check the disk number for the drive that you want to get that 1.33gb back.
Now type "select disk 1" (or disk 2 or whatever the number is)
Type "clean" hit enter .. and voila, it deletes all volumes of the selected disk.

Now you can go into the disk management console (right click the widows 10 start button and go to disk management) and you can initialize the disk and create a volume/format it

edit: you might need to run the command prompt as administrator, depending if you have uac on or off
 
The "System Volume Information" is a recovery folder. You need to have it disabled for the drive and either reformat or delete it using an elevated command prompt.
 
Thanks guys.
Appreciate your help. Looks like I'm stuck with "System Volume Information" but I managed to bring it down to about 500MB.
 
Just partition and format it from a linux live cd/usb using gparted.
 
rambo919 said:
That's cause you enabled system restore for that drive.
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System restore is the default state. I tried disabling it in Win7 but could only do it on a global level.
 
Swa said:
System restore is the default state. I tried disabling it in Win7 but could only do it on a global level.
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I don't have "System Volume Information" on any of my drives (yes show hidden is ticked), I do however see it on usb drives.
 
ponder said:
I don't have "System Volume Information" on any of my drives (yes show hidden is ticked), I do however see it on usb drives.
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It's just a weird thing that sometimes pops up. I managed to remove it from all but my system drive. Then I pop my flash drive into someone's laptop and suddenly there it is.
 
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