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How do I delete a partition?

by Jan 21, 2012 11:04PM PST

I have a 6 month old HP Pavilion dv6.
When I was partitioning the hard drive, some error occurred and the process got interrupted( this was after the 'shrink the primary partition'0 step). Disk Management Window didn't show any new partition, so I went on and created two new partitions, but afterwards, I can see an extra partition in My Computer. No info like disk capcity etc., visible; It just has the name 'Local Disk (Q)'. I tried running Disk Management again to get rid of it, but it's not shown in the Disk Management listing. How do I delete it? I tried system restore, but no system restore points prior to the partitioning available

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Since you're in the Windows 7 forums
by Jan 22, 2012 3:05AM PST
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Proceed with extreme caution. Power Tool warning!
by Forum moderator Jan 22, 2012 3:15AM PST

While I will share a tool to delete it, let's be aware that 7's boot method and partitions it creates has caught folk unaware when they didn't research that and blew away such a partition without doing the research.

Here's the tool I use when Windows won't delete a partition -> GPARTED

I've warned you so I won't feel bad if you delete that partition that 7 uses.
Bob

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Re: deleting partition
by Forum moderator Jan 22, 2012 3:32AM PST
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