Dell laptop HDD issues

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Thuddyy

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This is my first post on here so apologies if it's in the wrong place.

As the title suggests I'm having issues with my hard drive. When I first turned the laptop on it wouldn't even boot but I've managed to get it to boot using a USB with windows 10 installed onto it. Now I'm able to get into the laptop I can see that my HDD has 4 partitions, 3 of which are showing as RAW healthy (primary partition). I have tried to format them and delete them using disk manager but I'm getting an error saying "specified device does not exist", I'm also getting an error when I attempt to clean or format the partitions using Diskpart so I'm at a loss where to go from here.

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
g'day and welcome to the forum. :)

first up, sounds like your drive is going south on you.
how old is the laptop/drive?
do you have it backed up?

you probably are getting stuck because a) the drive is in use and therefore locked, or b) the drive is failing.

since you are trying to delete partitions, you obviously are happy to wipe the contents and reload Windows. with that in mind, get the Windows Media Creation Tool and use that to create a bootable USB stick with the latest Windows build on it. boot from that stick and reinstall Windows, there will be a screen that shows the current partitions, use that opportunity to delete the partitions.
 
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