How to clean up my disk?

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Hi,
How I got in the current state is a looong story! But I have a new 2TB drive (~2 weeks old) that appears to have 3 partitions on it:
a) "New Volume", 80GB NTFS, Primary, healthy
b) "Local Volume", 0 bytes Not Formatted, Primary Healthy
c) 1.741TB Unallocated

My problem is I didn't create and don't want the "Local Volume" partition. But just about everything I try in ADD either crashes it or says "internal error".
I've given up on the data. Is there anything I can do to get this drive back to its original usable state??

Thanks,

Rob

Mon, 09/05/2011 - 17:00
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Does the drive use 4K sectors? DD doesn't work with those drives correctly.

Can you post a screenshot of what Disk Management shows for the drive?

Have you tried using the DD CD to make the changes?

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 03:42
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DD says the cluster size is 4K.

I've attached screenshots of Disk Management and DD.

I tried using the CD and it does much the same.Here are the error details if I try and delete the rogue partition:

"Code:  9,764,884(0x950014)
Module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\DiskDirector\mmsBundle.dll
Message: Applying has failed.

Code:  3,539,348(0x360194)
Message: Fdisk probe has failed.

Code:  1,060,920(0x103038)
Message: Probe has failed.

Code:  1,060,911(0x10302F)
Message: Cannot delete the volume.

Code:  1,082,376(0x108408)
Message: The MBR volume cannot be found on the disk."

I just downloaded Paragon Partition Manager (they're giving it away free today!). It says:
"Paragon Partition Manager™ has discovered problems with this partition. It must have been caused by an incorrect geometry. In order to resolve the issue, please collect LOG-files and send them to our Support Team "

It also reports:
"First physical sector: 168,653,938
Last physical sector: 168,653,937"

Good, eh?

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Tue, 09/06/2011 - 21:35
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The Paragon software appears to have deleted the rogue partition. And to think I paid for ADD...

Hopefully problem solved.

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 21:43