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I have a hard drive that I cannot Secure Erase because there is still partitioning in the drive, but there are not any partitions left shown in disk 2 in the disk management tool, yet its not letting me secure erase. Would I have to delete the main partition as well or would this cause problems for my harddrive?

screenshot Kingston SSD Manager

screenshot SSD has no partitions

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  • Setting the drive offline in Disk Management might help. (Right click on the Disk 2 / Online box.)
    – Tom Yan
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 9:53
  • Or use clean in diskpart first.
    – Tom Yan
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 9:56

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The F: partition is still allocated.

Right-click the partition in Disk Management and select "Delete Volume".

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  • I did now I have two blocks of Unallocated Space and it does not work still
    – Genius Guy
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 9:15
  • Do a quick-format in Disk Management of Disk 2.
    – harrymc
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 9:23
  • Still does not work
    – Genius Guy
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 9:56
  • After the format the whole disk should be one unallocated space. Please add a screenshot of Disk Management for your current situation.
    – harrymc
    Commented Nov 17, 2022 at 14:57

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