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Connected my old HDD with usb dock to my computer after migrating to SSD. I was dual booting on that HDD now I want to use it as my storage disk. Yet it has 9 partition connected with Windows or Ubuntu. Gparted was able to delete some of them but some are not allowed to turn into unallocated space. There is a key symbol next to those. I can access every disk so it seems healthy but can't format and converge all of them to one partition. Here is how it seems:

PS: I don't want to preserve any data.

Partition Table for my external HDD

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  • Since you're on Linux right now have you tried to unmount those partitions showing still a mount-point? You can do that in terminal if needed with sudo umount <mount-point>, or with right clicking the entries in your partition list.
    – Videonauth
    Dec 26, 2016 at 12:26
  • Yeah it worked out after manually mounting all of them. I created new partition table and parameter error gone. Thanks! Dec 26, 2016 at 12:40
  • O.k. then let me add an answer.
    – Videonauth
    Dec 26, 2016 at 12:41

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As I can read of your screen-shot the partitions are still mounted in your Linux, open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and unmount them with issuing the following command for each partition which still shows a mount-point:

sudo umount <mount-point>

Or as alternative you can right click their entries in the partition list and select unmount.

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