Problem with my Toshiba external drive.

How about a screenshot of Disk Management? Looks to me like H: could be a partition on one of the other drives, Disk Management should allow deleting that partition leaving unallocated space. However, more information is needed that Disk Management should help with. A question: was that drive taken from a different computer [suggested by the Label of Recovery]?

Hi Milton

Try this

Diskpart is an extremely powerful tool, make absolutely sure you are entering commands against the correct disk. If you action the wrong drive you will be very unhappy. The "Clean" command below wipes the entire disk, everything on disk will be deleted.

Command Prompt(admin)
Don’t type in info in brackets.

Diskpart
List disk (shows all storage devices)
Select disk 4 (storage disk you are targeting, this example disk 4, yours could be different.)
Clean (diskpart will remove all partitions on Selected disk 4)
Exit
Exit

You should be able to enter Windows Disk Management and setup your disk.

It is absolutely essential that the right disk be selected with that recovery H: drive. I used disk 4 above as an example.

I assume this recovery partition was created when you tried to create the bootable drive. If not don't use diskpart to delete it.

Ken, I wouldn't recommend unexperienced user to play with diskpart command.

Better install partition manager (like Minitool partition manager free - just pay attention to uncheck any toolbars or browsers during setup) and perform this task with the help of graphic interface.

Windows disk management would be nice start, but it can't remove recovery partitions (could be possible with external drive)

I like Andre's idea.

Start diskpart and list you disks, first two commands. Then exit.

Diskpart just does what it is told and some don't take much care. That is when the s^&% happens. Andre's idea is a very good one.

Milton said:

To Caledon Ken:

The (H) RECOVERY drive was created after my failed attempt at creating a bootable Windows 10 drive.

To Berton:

The (H) Recovery drive was created on this computer...the only one I own.

I have never heard of 'Diskpart' so I will have to take my time to study how to use it....properly.

It's not really life or death problem as I can still access and use the 'actual' Toshiba drive, it's just annoying me that surplus recovery drive refuses to go.

milton

Here are tutorials to use clean in diskpart. By Brink

tenforums tutorials | erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10

Good, now use the Diskpart commands SELECT DISK, LIST PARTITION and LIST VOLUME to find out what's on each. Use these commands in this order and post a screenshot of the results.

LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0
LIST PARTITION
SELECT DISK 1
LIST PARTITION
LIST VOLUME

This is what I see on my system with a (Toshiba, as it happens) usb drive plugged in. This Toshiba is Disk 1 and has two partitions.