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- Open the Control Panel.
- Open Administrative Tools.
- Open Computer Management.
- In the left pane, under Storage, open Disk Management.
- The right pane should show a list of your drives, by letter, above a diagram of what partitions they have if any.
- Right-click within any of the fields below the colored bars, and select Delete Partition.
This is correct but be careful because you will delete all the files etc on the partition too.
Another way to get to it is right click on My Computer and click Manage. Then continue as above.
- It is recommended that you do not remove a partition if you can at all live with the partition being on your hard drive. It is documented that removing a partition can be detrimental and cause major problems within the windows environment.
- Remove partitions within windows at your own risk!!
Third party software could also be used to remove/edit hard drive partitions.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 17y agoseveral ways the best way to do it would be with partition magic by symatec as this will create solid boundries if your planning to install multiple os... you may also load into fdisk and delete the desiered partition
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∙ 15y agoDo a full back up of the hard drive. Run Disk Utility which is in the Utilities folder which is in the Applications folder. Select the hard disc in the left pane and click on the Partition button on the right.
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∙ 11y agoThere are two ways you can do this with the windows 7 software but depending on your setup only one might be possible.
Warning!! Deleting partitions will result in DATA loss. Removing the wrong partition can result windows not booting. You should always backup all important files and DATA before removing a partition!!!!
First just to let you know there is a small partition that windows 7 creates that must be there in order for windows 7 to start. This will be a small partition It is usually called system reserved and is about 100MB five or take.
The easiest and quickest is to click start>run, and type diskmgmt.msc and click OK. If your run program is hidden that click start>controlpanel>system and security>administrative tools>computer managment>disk managment, which is in the left plane. From there you should be able to delete, expand, shrink, and convert partition and disks. Not when it pops up a warning you should always read these they are important. For instance it will warn you if you Shrink or Expand a partition then u cannot reverse it.
The other way is to insert your windows 7 DVD. Restart the machine. As soon as it starts to boot repeatedly press F12. Select the CD/DVD drive. When prompted press any-key to boot from CD. Allow windows setup and repair to start. Click install now. After you agree and go through something it should come up with a partition table. Click advance option and there you go. After you do what you need to do, you do not have to go any further. Simply cancel the install and restart. If you delete the primary partition you must install a OS like windows 7. If you deleted the system reserve then boot into CD like before and when the install now appears select repair. Then if it does not auto detect the issue then select start-up > repair.
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∙ 13y agoThe same way you remove a hole: by filling it. "Unallocated" means that no data or partition is stored there. In order to use the space, you have to fill it, either by creating a new partition or expanding an existing one.
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∙ 8y agoYou have to have at least one partition for a hard drive to be usable. The question is a bit ambiguous and refers to at least two things.
If you mean to merge 2 or more partitions into one, you would need a partition managerof some sort. Modern partition programs allow you to merge, split, and resize partitions on the fly without any loss of data -- assuming no problems.
If you mean to remove the partition table altogether, perhaps to create a partition table of a different type (Linux vs. Windows), then you can use a partition manager or whatever partition tool that comes with the operating system. Under Windows or MS-DOS, FDisk will let you delete an entire partition table at once (and render all the contents on the drive unusable).
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∙ 10y agoUse any of the partition utilities listed on the Wikipedia article (see related links).
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∙ 15y agoStart -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> and then on the side bar click on Disk Management. All your drives will show up and you can go from there.
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∙ 14y agoYou must Format the harddrive loosing everything!Then the program will ask you how many partisions would you like your HD to be formated,after that you cant alter anything.
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What does the word unallocated mean?
"Allocated" is similar in meaning to "assigned" or "allotted." Unallocated space on a hard drive, for instance, is space that has not be assigned to any partition.
How do you free unallocated space on your laptop hard drive?
You have to create the primary partition, which will create a drive with assigned letter for you. Or you can create the extended partition where you can create logical drives it can be more than 1.
How can you delete an unallocated partition from your hard drive when the options to delete or unmount are grayed out?
actually you can do two simple steps to delete the unallocated space . select the volume that you shrink right click and click extend the volume and will go to a new window that will show add a volume and remove volume and in the right you will see the unallocated space MG just add that unallocated space to your hard drive and will be back to normal .
How do partition external hard drive into three partitions?
There are loads of partition management programs on the 'net. Paragon is a good one - it lets you set the partition sizes - and shows you any unallocated space.
How do you remove partition on slave hard drive?
To remove a partition on a slave hard drive you can go into the BIOS. You should look up a guide if you plan to do this.
How do you remove a hard drive partition on windows vista?
There are several tutorials on YouTube which will show you exactly how to remove a partition. Removing a hard drive partition on Windows Vista will create an empty space that you can use to install a new partition. Be aware that it will also delete all data that is on the partition.
How do you extend partition even through there is no unallocated space?
You will have to add additional hard drive and create dynamic volume which will allow you to add your new hard drive to a current partition. No, I mean use the free space of one partition to extend the non-contiguous partition, I learned AOMEI Partition Assistant could do this operation, here is the tutorial : disk-partition.com/help/align-partition.html
Why wont win XP let me partition more hard drive space?
You are supposed to have unallocated disk space if you want to create more partitions. So if you want to split one partition in two you have to delete the partition and then using the unallocated space create two new partitions. There are simpler ways to do that, for instance, using special software such as Partition Magic, Acronis disk editor and so on.
What partition is the active partition of the hard drive?
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive
How can you partition your hard disk drive?
Here are the steps how u can make partitions >Right click on My computer and then on Manage >Then click on Disk Management >Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free space in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive >In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, click Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical drive, and then follow the instructions on your screen. Hope my answer is perfect
How do you delete a partitioned hard drive?
The ability to partition hard drives can provide a range of benefits. But removing a hard drive partition can be difficult if you don't know what you are doing. With a few simple steps, this article will show you how easy it is to remove a hard drive partition without losing information or potentially damaging your drive or OS installation.
How do you remove a partition on your hard drive using a MS Windows 2000 OS?
my computer--->manage->computer management ---->select drive drive and right click delete partition
