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How To Delete A Partition or Volume in Windows 7

This document provides two methods for deleting a hard disk partition or volume in Windows 7 to create unallocated space. Method One uses Disk Management in Computer Management to right click a partition and select Delete Volume. Method Two uses the Diskpart command in an elevated command prompt to select and delete a volume. Both methods will erase all data on the deleted partition and make the space available for new partitions.

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How To Delete A Partition or Volume in Windows 7

This document provides two methods for deleting a hard disk partition or volume in Windows 7 to create unallocated space. Method One uses Disk Management in Computer Management to right click a partition and select Delete Volume. Method Two uses the Diskpart command in an elevated command prompt to select and delete a volume. Both methods will erase all data on the deleted partition and make the space available for new partitions.

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How to Delete a Partition or Volume in

Windows 7

    Information
This will show you how to delete a hard disk partition or volume using Disk Management
or Diskpart in Windows 7 to create empty unallocated space that you can use to create
new partitions with.

    Note

 If your hard disk is currently set up as a single partition, then you can't delete it
unless you do it from Drive options (advanced) during a Windows 7
installation.
 You also can't delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition that
contains the virtual memory paging file, because Windows needs this information
to start correctly.

    Warning

 You must be logged on in an administrator account to be able to do this tutorial.


 When you delete a partition, all data on the partition is erased.
 If you disable the Disk Defragmenter service, then you will get the error below
when you try to do anything in Disk Management. If you get this error, then
make sure that the Disk Defragmenter service is set to only Manual.

METHOD ONE
Using Disk Management
1. Open the Control Panel (All Items view), and click on the Administrative Tools
icon. then close the Control Panel window.

2. Click on Computer Management in Administrative Tools, then close the


Administrative Tools window.

3. In the left pane under Storage, click on Disk Management. (See screenshot below)
4. In the middle pane, right click on the partition that you want to delete and click on
Delete Volume. (See screenshot above)
NOTE: If the partition is a logical partition, then you will need to delete the free space
again to have it as unallocated space.

5. Click on Yes to confirm deletion. (See screenshot below)

6. The selected partition (step 4) is now deleted and is now unallocated space on the
disk.
NOTE: You can use this unallocated space to create a new partition with, or extend
another partition on that same hard disk into it.

7. Close the Computer Management window. (See screenshot above)

METHOD TWO
Using Diskpart in a Elevated Command Prompt
1. Open a elevated command prompt, or a command prompt at boot.

2. In the elevated command prompt, type diskpart and press Enter. (See screenshot
below)
3. In the elevated command prompt, type list volume and press Enter. (See
screenshot below)
NOTE: This will give you a list of volume numbers to select from to delete.

4. In the elevated command prompt, type select volume # and press Enter. (See
screenshot below)
NOTE: You would substitute # for the volume number listed that you want to delete. For
example, I want to delete the listed volume 3, so I would type select volume 3 and
press Enter.

5. In the elevated command prompt, type delete volume and press Enter. (See
screenshot below)
NOTE: If it fails to delete, then use type delete volume override and press enter
instead.

6. In the elevated command prompt, type exit and press Enter. (See screenshot
below)
7. Close the elevated command prompt.

8. The selected partition (step 4) is now deleted and is now unallocated space on the
disk.
NOTE: You can use this unallocated space to create a new partition with, or extend
another partition on that same hard disk into it.
That's it,
Shawn

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