Windows disk management, at times is quite simple- it won’t allow advanced management features- where you know what you are doing. This was with formatting a SD card with Fedora for Raspberry Pi3. I needed to redo the os image and just couldn’t get back all the space there was on SD Card.
following command will cause loss of data- try at your own risk
There is an alternative, is to use diskpart
. This utility will not nag you to confirm changes.
To start diskpart
& list out the disk enter:
diskpart
list disk
In my case here the SD Card was listed as disk 1
select disk 1
clean
This will erase all the partitions on the selected disk and will create 1 full sized partition.
exit