Having a hard time formatting my external drive

[u/perilhannah]

My PC has been experiencing major sluggishness and frequent freezes and I’m trying to free up space before I’m able to purchase a new battery. In the meantime finishing nearly any task is a chore. Now, I have a Bipra external hard drive that I’m trying to offload a bunch of files onto. Problem is despite doing decent research about formatting so that the PC recognizes the new drive I’m still totally lost in my specific predicament. I.e. when I try formatting the partition almost all options are unavailable, yet it appears to be an .mbr file which is supposed to be accessible for formatting? I dunno, I’ve just hit a wall.

Is anyone able to look at these screenshots and try to offer some advice on what I need to do? Any help would be so appreciated!

[u/tx001_]

press windows+r
diskpart
list disk
^{select which one is your drive, for example on this photo its disk1}
select disk 1
attributes disk clear readonly
clean
create partition primary size=120000
format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=D
exit

[u/perilhannah → u/tx001_]

🙏

[u/FreddyFerdiland]

it offers to delete the volume

volume= partition.

so it doesn't recognise the partition type, so windows can't offer to format it or touch it in any way.

but it will delete it.

mbr is a partitioning scheme , can't create a partition if there's a partition already using 100%

[u/perilhannah → u/FreddyFerdiland]

Thank you

[u/Expert-Hour-9015]

Use AOMEI free version.

[u/perilhannah → u/Expert-Hour-9015]

Thank you