dude instead of deleting the partitions individually, u could have just opened diskpart selected disk 3 and cleaned the entire disk. then you could have created the partition way more easily. otherwise, great video :)
I actually learned about the "clean" command shortly after posting this video. You're right it is much easier to be able to remove all the partitions simultaneously if that's what you're wanting to do... which is what I wanted to do in this video. I've pinned your comment so hopefully people will see our conversation here and learn that rather than selecting and deleting each partition individually if they want to remove them all simultaneously they can simply select their disk and then type "clean" and hit enter and be done.
Hey man, thanks for the reply, I recently started watching your videos, And its pretty good, also I think this was the first time I've ever commented on a video on youtube
@@deletedelete2016 I would use diskpart like I show in the video. Rather than doing like I did in the video and typing delete partition override you can instead select the disk you want and then just type clean and it will remove all the partitions on the drive simultaneously.
@@Maraksot78 My apologies, already saw the whole video, I was at work doing half job haha so I couldn't see the video completely. Gonna make the exact same thing using diskpart in a few hours because I made a huge mistake: full hard drive format from Disk Management :( Should I let it run until is done or pull the hard drive off like a real man? Haha
This worked like a charm! Got rid of those recovery partitions and now have a new storage drive. I would like to add that you can use a spare sata and power cable on your desktop to perform these tasks. That is what I did. Thank you very much for keeping the steps simple to follow.
You made it very easy. I followed along as you explained the how-tos and paused when needed. I did this for my wife using our Windows laptop so she'd have additional storage for her Chromebook. The one I did for my Mac was easy: I just reformatted it and now it's the Time Machine backup.
At first I was not able to delete the partitions on my former Macbook Pro HDD with the right click method on Disk Management, but after that I tried it with diskpart it worked like magic. Thanks to this video I can now use that HDD plus another SSD for my current MacBook Pro which only has a 256GB drive, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your help. Actually i changed my laptop hdd with ssd and i was thinking that what im gonna do with the hdd after installing the ssd then i watched your video and i was like WTH I didn’t know that and now i won’t have to buy an extra external hdd and then i bought ORICO enclosure and worked so amazingly fast. I’m so happy now. Thanks again.
OMG so clear and concise with a pace that was ideal for anyone who might be trying to follow. And to pin someone else's comment at the top to clarify "cleaning" the partition - you sir are a gent.
Thanks very much for this video. I had removed a 500GB HDD from an old laptop and now I can use it as an external drive. Easy to follow instructions, thanks again.
very straight forwards and almost exactly what I needed. I ended up doing DISKPART a bit different by using the clean function on the entire thing since I didn't need to worry about any files on it. But overall super glad to have such a straightforwards and well explained tutorial available
Thanks man, been using my old laptop hdd without being formatted coz I thought formatting it would render it useless but I appreciate a video this detailed in all the steps necessary and now I use the hdd as a single partition external good for just storing everything I need, thank u
Your video helped me to decide what to do with my old laptop hard drive. The laptop won't turn on and I still have tons of things I didn't get to back up. thank god I can recover all the stuff. thanks
Your video was extremely helpful! I replaced an old HDD from my laptop and wanted to use it on my desktop as extra storage. Worked like a champ! Oh and by the way I had an extra sata cable so I just hooked it up that way and powered it directly through my power supply. Thanks again!
Mine went totally different. When i opened disk management and let the wizard do its thing it asked me basically if i wanted to convert my basic disk into a dynamic disk, so i got scared and said no. Then i went into diskpart and deleted one partition with no problem, but the final active partition (O/S or partition3) won't delete. "the arguments specified for this command are not valid." Solved: I had to manually delete the partition called O/S, through disk management. Diskpart could only delete the OM partition. I didn't agree to making it dynamic at any point. Once O/S deleted i got one large empty partition like you had. Thank you for this video, i couldn't have don't it without you.
Thanks so much for this. I am NOT a tech savvy guy. But this walk through made this process easy and i now have an external hard drive for all my stuff. Thanks again.
+Common Man's Combatives yes, you can turn a 3.5" drive (typical destop drive) into an external drive however they require more power than a 2.5" laptop drive to operate so the USB cable alone doesn't provide enough power. The enclosure for one is of course bigger and then requires a power cable to be plugged into it along with the USB cable. But all the other stuff I show in this video about deleting partitions and formatting the drive works the same.
Maraksot78 Thanks. I ordered the enclosure but I wasn't sure if the partitions part was the same. Thanks again. Now I have two places to store all my important data. 👍
Thank you, a 750gb hdd now has new life without having to learn how to take apart and install correctly in my new laptop. I'm anxious about it because it entails installing a fragile cable and I'd rather not break it, so $10 for a decent device provides me peace of mind.
HAHA! Important data... I see what you did there. LOVE the humor! OUTSTANDING introduction - I would just point out the path to $home and have them copy that entire folder to the USB drive. . Great vid!
thanks a lot dude. I was confused why my unallocated space is divided in two but after following what you did i found out there was a hidden partition in the drive and after deleting it my disk is good to go 👍
Great video, helped save me a considerable amount of time and money, also dude reminds me of a bargain bin Christian Slater. I think I'll subscribe. I like it.
reason why i wanna put alot of my driver stuff into my TB drive is because im on gaming laptop, so by storing alot of things into my TB drive, i would actually have no blocking space that will slow down my computer, onto its drive, so TB drive will actually be alot better.
Thanks for your video. My old laptop stopped working, the power button worked in the morning but later did not for my mother. I didn't really want to get rid of it but what to do with it? Now to see what else I can figure out.......
you're very welcome. I'm always happy to get comments like yours. It's great to know that my video helped someone. Enjoy your new external hard drive. :)
Thanks for this video 👍👍⭐⭐⭐ I didnt end up making my old hard drive an ext hard drive but used it as a clone for my current Mac lol. Since the old hard drive has already OS installed in it just had to reformat it to match Apple's new APFS, works fine, so now it's like I have a second "portable" Mac for $20 that can operate by plugging in to any Mac! Now Im just curious if Im gonna run into issues by doing this
Thank you! I have an old Dell that bit the dust leaving me with 1TB drive, I'd already put it into an enclosure but could not figure out how to get rid of the 5 different partitions
To do it with a desktop hard drive the process is the same except you need a different adapter that has a power adapter for it too. One like this... amzn.to/3e6i7ik
Not in my opinion. Partitions just divide the drive up into separate addressable drives. Meaning you actually only have one physical hard drive but when viewing it in Windows explorer you will see two drives, like D:// and E:// This is useful when you want to install your OS (i.e. Windows) to one "drive" and have another "drive" for storing other stuff. You can then password protect that one partition if you wanted without password protecting your entire hard drive. Hope this helps.
dude instead of deleting the partitions individually, u could have just opened diskpart selected disk 3 and cleaned the entire disk. then you could have created the partition way more easily. otherwise, great video :)
I actually learned about the "clean" command shortly after posting this video. You're right it is much easier to be able to remove all the partitions simultaneously if that's what you're wanting to do... which is what I wanted to do in this video. I've pinned your comment so hopefully people will see our conversation here and learn that rather than selecting and deleting each partition individually if they want to remove them all simultaneously they can simply select their disk and then type "clean" and hit enter and be done.
Hey man, thanks for the reply, I recently started watching your videos, And its pretty good, also I think this was the first time I've ever commented on a video on youtube
Thanks !!
@@deletedelete2016 I would use diskpart like I show in the video. Rather than doing like I did in the video and typing delete partition override you can instead select the disk you want and then just type clean and it will remove all the partitions on the drive simultaneously.
@@Maraksot78 My apologies, already saw the whole video, I was at work doing half job haha so I couldn't see the video completely. Gonna make the exact same thing using diskpart in a few hours because I made a huge mistake: full hard drive format from Disk Management :(
Should I let it run until is done or pull the hard drive off like a real man? Haha
Before this guy, too many of my old harddrives went in the trash. Since, I've repurposed three drives, and I couldn't be more grateful!
This worked like a charm! Got rid of those recovery partitions and now have a new storage drive. I would like to add that you can use a spare sata and power cable on your desktop to perform these tasks. That is what I did. Thank you very much for keeping the steps simple to follow.
Just want to say thankyou for adding the Canadian Amazon link I've never seen any other TH-camr think about the canadian viewers .
You made it very easy. I followed along as you explained the how-tos and paused when needed. I did this for my wife using our Windows laptop so she'd have additional storage for her Chromebook. The one I did for my Mac was easy: I just reformatted it and now it's the Time Machine backup.
Awesome! Happy to hear the video helped you out. Enjoy!
At first I was not able to delete the partitions on my former Macbook Pro HDD with the right click method on Disk Management, but after that I tried it with diskpart it worked like magic. Thanks to this video I can now use that HDD plus another SSD for my current MacBook Pro which only has a 256GB drive, thank you so much!
you're welcome. Enjoy! :)
Thank you so much for your help. Actually i changed my laptop hdd with ssd and i was thinking that what im gonna do with the hdd after installing the ssd then i watched your video and i was like WTH I didn’t know that and now i won’t have to buy an extra external hdd and then i bought ORICO enclosure and worked so amazingly fast. I’m so happy now. Thanks again.
You're very welcome. Thanks so much for checking out the video. Enjoy your "new" external hard drive. :)
Was terrified while doing this but ended up working fine. Thank you very much for the tutorial!
Very happy the video helped you. Enjoy your external drive. :)
OMG so clear and concise with a pace that was ideal for anyone who might be trying to follow. And to pin someone else's comment at the top to clarify "cleaning" the partition - you sir are a gent.
Thanks very much for this video. I had removed a 500GB HDD from an old laptop and now I can use it as an external drive. Easy to follow instructions, thanks again.
Great to hear! Enjoy. :)
very straight forwards and almost exactly what I needed. I ended up doing DISKPART a bit different by using the clean function on the entire thing since I didn't need to worry about any files on it. But overall super glad to have such a straightforwards and well explained tutorial available
Wow! Thank you so much for this tutorial. My old Lenovo 500gb hard drive is now ready 😆. I never thought my broken laptop can still be of use.
Thanks man, been using my old laptop hdd without being formatted coz I thought formatting it would render it useless but I appreciate a video this detailed in all the steps necessary and now I use the hdd as a single partition external good for just storing everything I need, thank u
I just played your video now.. 4years after 😄 but I just want to say thank you!! You solved my problem with my old hdd as back up ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was so anxious doing this but i got through every step with you. Thank you. Great Video.
Wow man! I love you! You saved my 1TB external that I thought will gonna be garbage!
Your video helped me to decide what to do with my old laptop hard drive. The laptop won't turn on and I still have tons of things I didn't get to back up. thank god I can recover all the stuff. thanks
Your video was extremely helpful! I replaced an old HDD from my laptop and wanted to use it on my desktop as extra storage. Worked like a champ! Oh and by the way I had an extra sata cable so I just hooked it up that way and powered it directly through my power supply. Thanks again!
Glad it helped! :)
Mine went totally different. When i opened disk management and let the wizard do its thing it asked me basically if i wanted to convert my basic disk into a dynamic disk, so i got scared and said no. Then i went into diskpart and deleted one partition with no problem, but the final active partition (O/S or partition3) won't delete. "the arguments specified for this command are not valid."
Solved:
I had to manually delete the partition called O/S, through disk management. Diskpart could only delete the OM partition. I didn't agree to making it dynamic at any point. Once O/S deleted i got one large empty partition like you had.
Thank you for this video, i couldn't have don't it without you.
Thank you so much for this video! The old hard drive from my broken old netbook was very useful now and I was able to make this into a new one. 💖
You got my like at the "important data" joke. +5 comedic prowess to you sir.
Thanks for this, i am going to go and grab everything out of my old laptops!! Hella Smart
Thank you for sharing this tutorial! I can now use my old laptop hardrive as external drive. Thank you so much!
Thank you! I was able to do all this and have a „new” external drive. The instruction were all very useful.
Excellent video! Love the step-by-step approach (no shortcuts).
a good intro would be
"someone at work ate my sandwich"
or
"my best friend and myyy sister ..."
I enjoyed your goofy sense of humor and well-paced instructions. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this. I am NOT a tech savvy guy. But this walk through made this process easy and i now have an external hard drive for all my stuff. Thanks again.
No problem. Glad the video helped you out. Thanks for watching. :)
Hey Sir, would this same process work with an old desktop hard drive?
+Common Man's Combatives yes, you can turn a 3.5" drive (typical destop drive) into an external drive however they require more power than a 2.5" laptop drive to operate so the USB cable alone doesn't provide enough power. The enclosure for one is of course bigger and then requires a power cable to be plugged into it along with the USB cable. But all the other stuff I show in this video about deleting partitions and formatting the drive works the same.
Maraksot78 Thanks. I ordered the enclosure but I wasn't sure if the partitions part was the same. Thanks again. Now I have two places to store all my important data. 👍
+Common Man's Combatives cool, best of luck to you. Enjoy. :)
Thank you, a 750gb hdd now has new life without having to learn how to take apart and install correctly in my new laptop. I'm anxious about it because it entails installing a fragile cable and I'd rather not break it, so $10 for a decent device provides me peace of mind.
Best video intro ever I dislike it when people talk too much
HAHA! Important data... I see what you did there. LOVE the humor! OUTSTANDING introduction - I would just point out the path to $home and have them copy that entire folder to the USB drive. . Great vid!
thanks a lot dude. I was confused why my unallocated space is divided in two but after following what you did i found out there was a hidden partition in the drive and after deleting it my disk is good to go 👍
Just done mine this morning. Really helpful. Thanks, Wayne (England)
You're welcome. Thanks for checking out the video and for the very kind comment. Cheers to you sir. :)
What a legend. This video was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
I have used this video about 4 times....BRILLIANT! Thank You :)
thanks for the help. I am going to do this next week when I get the parts . hope it goes this easy for me
Thankyou so much. I can now use my old hard drive as external hard drive
This is so informative and entertaining as well. Can't wait for my enclosure to arrive and follow these steps!
Thanks for watching and for the kind comment. Best of luck to you creating your own external HDD. :)
Maraksot78 we had the same experience with the senior prom though.... 😂😂
Sorry to hear that man. Lol 😂
You made it so simple - worked first time - thanks
You're welcome. Thanks for watching the video and for the kind comment. :)
Fantastic! I've recovered my hard drive!
Thank you so much... this is very helping out and it really work well.. Now I able to use my old hard drive to be external hard drive
This is what intros should be like!! Good video man.
Great video, helped save me a considerable amount of time and money, also dude reminds me of a bargain bin Christian Slater. I think I'll subscribe. I like it.
Thanks, man. This is exactly what I was looking for!
Thaks buddy... Working with you is awesome... 😎🤩🤩
reason why i wanna put alot of my driver stuff into my TB drive is because im on gaming laptop, so by storing alot of things into my TB drive, i would actually have no blocking space that will slow down my computer, onto its drive, so TB drive will actually be alot better.
Thanks for your video. My old laptop stopped working, the power button worked in the morning but later did not for my mother. I didn't really want to get rid of it but what to do with it? Now to see what else I can figure out.......
I'm not weird I'm not weird I'm not weird strange but not weird. Great vid.
excellent..gonna use this old 15. TB for a time-machine backup on new macbook
Thank you very much for this video!!! it was SUPER helpful!!! you got yourself a new subscriber!!!
Great video I learnt from you how extend the used HDD, Thanks
best intro ever
Great video, simple straightforward. Question though can I use my very old 2012 laptop HD for external use for my ps4/ps5?
Yes
Nice video mate, helped me in 2021. :)
this has been very helpful!! i thank you good sir, regards all the way from malaysia
Thanks so much for making this video for less tech savvy people like myself.
you're very welcome. I'm always happy to get comments like yours. It's great to know that my video helped someone. Enjoy your new external hard drive. :)
Thank you so much! This video guided me through the process easily.
Thanks for the assist i was lost in the sauce on that one
Just type clean after selecting the partition. You can just delete all the positions at once click.
yup... learned that literally the day after making this video. SMH
Thanks Big brother. Its always Easssy-Pezzzy with you .
Thanks man.
Did the trick! Thanks,you're the best!
Awesome video thank you. Sorted myself and external hard drive from my old laptop. Will share the video :)
+stephen fletcher happy to hear the video helped you out. Thanks for watching and for sharing. :)
Thank you. Very helpful. Greetings from Malaysia !
Worked for me. Thanks mate. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks much for checking out the video and for leaving a comment. I greatly appreciate it. :)
love the video quality, are you still using the g7 with the kit lens? cheers!
+Salko yup, it's a great little camera for TH-cam. :)
so helpful man, thank you and keep it up.
Thanks a million Maraksot78. A brilliant easy to follow tutorial. Like your style!
Thanks so much. Glad the video was helpful to you. Enjoy. :)
Great video. Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you
Thanks for this video 👍👍⭐⭐⭐ I didnt end up making my old hard drive an ext hard drive but used it as a clone for my current Mac lol. Since the old hard drive has already OS installed in it just had to reformat it to match Apple's new APFS, works fine, so now it's like I have a second "portable" Mac for $20 that can operate by plugging in to any Mac! Now Im just curious if Im gonna run into issues by doing this
Thank you! I have an old Dell that bit the dust leaving me with 1TB drive, I'd already put it into an enclosure but could not figure out how to get rid of the 5 different partitions
You're welcome. I'm glad the video was able to help you out. :)
Awesome video. I wanted to try this with a desktop hard drive. Is the process the same? What kind of attachment would fit a desktop hard drive?
To do it with a desktop hard drive the process is the same except you need a different adapter that has a power adapter for it too. One like this... amzn.to/3e6i7ik
Maraksot78 awesome man. Thank you for the response my friend.
Thanks dude. Awesome video and you made it totally easy to do.
Thank you so much! Your video help along and I know what to do when I have a next old hard drive
Still useful in 2020
Great job my friend! You saved me a lot of money from buy a terabyte external drive! 👍💵💰
Thanks for the guide, It is really helpful 😀
It works. Thanks champ.Very clear
No problem. Thanks for checking out the video. Enjoy! :)
Worked like the charm. Thanks
Dude you saved me, thank you.
No problem. Happy to hear the video was helpful to you. :)
Thank you so much. This works 100 percent. I am now subscribed
Thank you so much really helped me a lot, you are awesome :) Great job! Keep it up :)
You're welcome. Cheers. :)
So helpful and clearly described each step.
Man, thanks. But why isnt anyone talking about a folder dedicated to your important -Mr.- *"data"* ?
I know right? You're the first one to make a comment about that. XD lol
Cheers mate, it worked a treat you made it so easy even i could do follow it
Cheers to you as well my friend. I'm happy the video helped and you found it easy to follow. Thanks for watching and for the kind comment. :)
Thanks dude it really helps me a lot
thank you very much. ..your video is very helpful! i did it following through.
Thanks dude, you saved a life.
You're welcome. Thanks for checking out the video. I'm glad it was helpful to you. 🙂
Your tutorial is the best, very clear and precise. I subscribe to your channel.
Chongyee Yap thank you very much. 😊
Greetings You are the best !
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Can the eclosure and its USB cable be used a s substitute to the USB to SATA cable for the cloning phase?
This was incredibly helpful! Just curious, are there any downsides to having a drive without partitions?
Not in my opinion. Partitions just divide the drive up into separate addressable drives. Meaning you actually only have one physical hard drive but when viewing it in Windows explorer you will see two drives, like D:// and E:// This is useful when you want to install your OS (i.e. Windows) to one "drive" and have another "drive" for storing other stuff. You can then password protect that one partition if you wanted without password protecting your entire hard drive. Hope this helps.
@@Maraksot78 Makes sense. Thank you!
@@SophiaTellman yup, no problem.
What a legend, dude. Thanks!
Thank you! This video guided me through the process easily. :D
thanks dude this video helped out a lot.
Thanks for the video! Saved me tons of time!!!
Best teacher.
Cool-you make it easy to follow!
Thanks so much. Enjoy! :)
Thanks, great job, clear step-by-step, PERFECT! :-)
New simple volume didn't show up and it's just showing me 289.9 GB. Thank you for the instructions.
THANK-YOU!!! I gave the thumbs up and subscribed. Excellent!