There are dozens of utilities out there both free and premium that can do this task for you but none of them is as versatile, powerful and as simple as Diskpart! The best thing yet is that it’s a command-line tool baked into Windows itself! Windows also has a built-in tool with a nifty GUI and everything for managing simple operations with regard to simple operations on disks but it is slow and tends to malfunction once there’s more than one logical drive involved on a single external drive and doesn’t let you delete the entire volume on the USB drive unless you wipe all partitions, leading us to pick Diskpart. That’s the length one would usually think up to before Googling about the problem at hand. What’s worse? The two partitions will be treated as separate logical drives and thanks to this you can’t just undo this by formatting the disk.

Depending on the size of the partitioning, you now can’t store a large file on the drive – one that’s well within the size of the overall disk because there’s a logical partition that’s preventing you from doing so! You might even see that there’s a lot less space there, even in total as there might be some unallocated space too. Have you ever faced the situation where you plug in your pen drive to your computer and find out that there’s more than one new device found? On closer inspection, you find out that it’s the same pen drive, but there are somehow two partitions on it! If you try to remember how this might have happened you’ll probably recollect using it as a bootable disk sometime recently, maybe to install Kali onto your testing laptop? Or maybe to upgrade a rusty old PC to the latest version of windows? Whatever it may be, you’re now stuck with a flash drive with multiple partitions.

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