To delete a partition or logical drive

Using the Windows interface

Open Computer Management (Local)

In the console tree, click Disk Management.

Where?

Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management

Right-click the partition, logical drive, or volume you want to delete, and then click Delete Partition.

Important

•	When you delete a partition, all data on that deleted partition or logical drive is lost.
•	You cannot recover deleted partitions or logical drives.

Note

•	To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
•	You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
•	You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).
•	You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty. All the logical drives in an extended partition be deleted before you can delete the extended partition.

Using a command line

1.	Open Command Prompt
2.	Type: diskpart
3.	At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk Make note of the disk number of the disk from which you want to delete the partition.
4.	At the DISKPART prompt, type: select disk n Select the disk n from which you want to delete the partition.
5.	At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition Make note of the number of the partition that you want to delete.
6.	At the DISKPART prompt, type: select partition n Select the partition n that you want to delete.
7.	At the DISKPART prompt, type: delete partition

•	Deleting a partition on a dynamic disk can delete all dynamic volumes on the disk, thus converting the disk to basic disk To delete a dynamic volume, use the delete volume command instead.

•	When you delete a partition, all data on that deleted partition or logical drive is lost.
•	You cannot recover deleted partitions or logical drives.

Value	Description
list disk	Displays a list of disks and information about them, such as their size, amount of available free space, whether the disk is a basic or dynamic disk, and whether the disk uses the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) partition style. The disk marked with an asterisk (*) has focus.
select disk	Selects the specified disk, where n is the disk number, and shifts the focus to it.
list partition	Displays the partitions listed in the partition table of the current disk.
select partition n	Selects the specified partition and gives it focus. If no partition is specified, the select command lists the current partition with focus.
delete partition	On a basic disk, deletes the partition with focus. You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).

Note

•	To open command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
•	You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
•	You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).
•	You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty. All the logical drives in an extended partition be deleted before you can delete the extended partition.
•	You cannot delete partitions on removable media using DiskPart.
•	For more information about DiskPart, see Related Topics.