How to Delete a Partition on Windows 8/7

Too many partitions and hard to locate files you want soon? How to deal with it? You can choose to delete unnecessary or redundant partition easily to reallocate your partitions and their contents. This article gives modest advice on how to delete a partition on Windows 8 or Windows 7, you won’t miss it.

In fact, no matter you run Windows 8/ 7 or Windows Vista/XP, you delete undesired partition from Disk Management exactly the same way.

Steps to Delete a Partition on Windows 8/7

You must log in as an administrator to perform all these steps smoothly.

1.Right click on Computer icon and select Manage item from the popped-up menu.

2. Click on Disk Management under Storage on the left side.

3. Right click on the partition (volume or logical drive) to delete and select Delete Volume item.

4. Click Yes button to confirm deletion.

5. Now you can see the deleted partition become unallocated in Disk Management and you also cannot find the partition in Computer.

Note:

• All data of the partition will be erased when you delete the partition. Just make sure all important and useful files on it are backed up.
• You are not allowed to delete the only single one partition set on your computer.
• You are also not allowed to delete the system partition, boot partition or any partition that contains the virtual memory paging file for the reason that Windows needs this information to boot normally.

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