How to format an HDD with Linux Mint on it?

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After a botched installation of Linux Mint (it's a long story), the result is that on the 500 GB SSD, where I had before all my work stored, now I have only Linux, and the partition with my work has gone. On my 100 GB SSD I have Windows 10 installed. I wanted to format the 500 GB SSD and get away Linux by using a Linux bootable USB created with Rufus, but, in the terminal, when I taste fdisk, it gave me an enormous list with things to do, that I can't manage. I used this method because I forgot the password that once I was told to create. My PC is an old Lenovo Thinkstation. I h

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