How do you remove a partition on your hard drive?

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You can browse to BootDisk.com and download software that will help - load it onto a floppy disk, restart your computer, go into the BIOS, set your boot-priority to your floppy drive, insert the disk, and restart again.

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Within Windows XP:

• 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!!

ANSWER: Cute Partition Manager is a freeware application that allows you to create partitions (up to 100 partitions per hard disk), delete partitions, change the boot flag and partition types of partitions, etc. The download is a Windows executable that creates the Cute Partition Manager bootable CD. You will have to boot your computer using the bootable CD and run the partition manager from there. [ web page http://www.cutepm.com/ ]

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