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Is this Partioning a Problem?

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edo101

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Hey guys, I shucked my Seagate Expansion drive. It had two partitions. One was FAT32 which is hidden from Windows and the other was exFat. Since I am using Windows I went to my computer and formatted my drive to NTFS. However now the drive has this FAT32 partition and the main NTFS partition.

Will this be a problem?

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edo101 said:
Hey guys, I shucked my Seagate Expansion drive. It had two partitions. One was FAT32 which is hidden from Windows and the other was exFat. Since I am using Windows I went to my computer and formatted my drive to NTFS. However now the drive has this FAT32 partition and the main NTFS partition.

Will this be a problem?

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You can leave that 200MB partition there, it doesn't do any harm , definitely not a problem.
 
I mean, you're losing out on that space, but it's not always easy to expand a partition from the front, so I'd probably live with it, if 200 mb isn't a big deal.

Windows Disk Management will only extend a partition if the free space is after the partition you want to extend, and won't move partitions. So you'd need to use a 3rd party tool, or throw away the data.
 
dbwillis said:
Since you just got the drive I assume, just use diskpart to 'clean' it and start with the full drive?
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The screenshot OP provided what looks like used/free capacity bar (I don't use Windows), so I assumed he's got half the space already occupied. Hence, my recommendation just to leave it, too many things can go wrong if you try to resize half occupied 22 TB partition. But if it's all free, then by all means he can go ahead, delete all partitions and use entire space.
 
The free version of Partition Wizard will clear out the existing partitions. then you can create an NTFS partition for the entire drive.
 
Diskpart might also work (might) with these commands (youd have to select your specific partition on that command)
list disk
list partition
select partition
delete partition override
 
The graphical representation is not to scale.
The 22TB partition represents 99.9991%
The 200MB partition represent 0.0009%

Or another way to think about it, that’s 1 less FLAC album you will be able to put on there.

I never bother with that tiny partition.
 
westrock2000 said:
The graphical representation is not to scale.
The 22TB partition represents 99.9991%
The 200MB partition represent 0.0009%

Or another way to think about it, that’s 1 less FLAC album you will be able to put on there.

I never bother with that tiny partition.
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agreed, if it wasnt wiped at the start. not worth the effort for such an insignificant amount of space.
 
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