Is there a way to delete EFI System and Recovery partitions from an SSD that was formerly used to run Windows 10 on a computer?

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Long story short, I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop. I found out the laptop has an additional slot for another M.2 format SSD, one of which I had at hand and unused. I managed to get the SSD recogniced by Windows completely fine, but there is one... annoyance with it: The SSD I installed used to belong to an earlier laptop of mine, thus it had Windows installed on it. I managed to erase the partitions on the drive that had Windows and other files installed onto, but I couldn't find a way to remove the "EFI System" and "Recovery" partitions. It's not a too big of a deal for them to be there, but them being there makes it impossible for me to merge two partitions I originally made for the earlier computer I used the SSD in. So, is there any special software that would allow me to remove those formerly important, but now unnecessary partitions?

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