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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

I've got a couple old HD's from computers that went by the way side for one reason or another.
I've got a brand new Sabrent HD dock, this one has a cooling fan (lesson learned there) and I can access the drives no problem.
When I plug the biggest one (1TB) in, the 'recovery' portion of the disc comes up in file explorer.
I'd like to just clear that portion of the drive and the other Windows files in the program portion of the remainder of the drive so I can store more picture files on it.
Is it just a matter of going in and manually deleting all the individual files?

If you have stuff in the main portion (windows files) then yes, you can delete all of that stuff to create more space for your files.

The recovery portion is probably a separate partition. That would require you to remove that partition and then expand the other partition which is a bit more complex than just deleting some files. I believe some utilities can stretch a partition, but I haven't created/deleted/changed HDD partitions in a long time.