Windows 10 Windows wont let me delete partitions on my external drive.

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So I have a 1TB hard drive that i wanted to put into my laptop for more storage, I cloned all of the data and partitions onto it and put it into the computer. Upon realising that is was exteremely slow, I took it out the laptop and put my old ssd back in. I wanted to delete all the partitions for the 1TB drive which is currently connected externally through a USB to SATA cable. I opened the disk manager and the EFI system partition and the recovery partition are still there. So i try to delete volume only to realised it is greyed out. How can i delete them?

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