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    I removed a small hard drive from an old laptop and proceeded to format it and clean it for passing on to someone. I am using a sata drive adapter to USB port to look at the drive on my current Windows 11 machine.However, I have found that this drive has a system partition that is not visible in either Diskpart or Disk Manager. How then is it possible to completely clean this drive to be able to use the whole of the drive and not just the presently available partition? This drive was from a Windows 10 machine and I am checking it on a Windows 11 machine with the adapter mentioned above.I attac

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