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Partition clean/delete

  • 02-08-2009 8:47pm
    #1
    chezzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭


    Hi
    I seem to have a 16gb partition (from a botched ubuntu install) doing nothing... how can i delete it safely through vista.

    I'm a bit skeptical , because last time i deleted a partition it turned out to be
    really important and ****ed up my system...


Comments

  • #2
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Tread very caefully when dealing with partitions....

    I think you should be ale to do something with this one if you go to 'Administrative Tools' in Control Panel. Then, go to Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management

    That should bring up a list of all partitions, both used and unused.

    Kevin


  • #3
    chezzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭chezzer


    This is what I used the last time,

    how can I be sure it is not used by Windows for booting ?


  • #4
    stanley1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭stanley1


    windows will not let you delete partition with os on it.


  • #5
    chezzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭chezzer


    hmmm ... i wonder what happened then the other time ...

    mad ...

    must have been the grub loader for ubuntu that messed it up ..


  • #6
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    just back up your stuff, if it finds a bad sector in the middle of resizing a partition it will never complete the resize and the drive will probably never work again


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  • #7
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    download easeus partition master. its a free program which lets you resize and delete partitions. if the boot sector is affected use windows recovery to repair the boot/mbr code


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