format windows recovery partition in hard drive externally

Question

I want to format a disk from my other laptop. I have an external drive reader and when I attempt to format the disk, it only formats the main partition but the recovery sector remains intact. I am attempting to install Ubuntu on the laptop.

What should I do to remove it?

Solution

Here are directions for force-removing a recovery partition.

1. Open a command prompt as administrator.
2. Run Diskpart application by typing Diskpart in the command prompt.
3. In the “Diskpart" prompt, enter rescan command and press Enter key to re-scan all partitions, volumes and drives available.
4. Then type in list disk and press Enter key to show all hard disk drive available.
5. Select the disk that contains the partition you want to remove. In your case, this may be disk 1 or more, your primary drive is probably Disk 0--the numbering is the same as in Disk Management. So the command could be:Select disk 1 . Triple check you are entering the right disk.
6. Type list partition and press Enter key to show all partitions in the disk selected.
7. Select the partition that wanted to be deleted by using the following command, followed by Enter key: Select partition x Where x is the number of the recovery partition to be removed. Be careful with the number of this partition, as entering the wrong number will be a bad thing.
8. Finally, type in delete partition override and press Enter key.

Comments

[libjup]

How did you format it? With what software?

[Ramhound]

use disk manager and delete each partition by hand yourself.

[Roh_mish]

I can format the main partition successfully by the recovery partition wont go. gparted fails and windows Disk Management wont show any options.