How to Delete Partitions on a Hard Drive

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Tip 1 - Delete a hard disk partition - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Andres Goiran | permalink

Learn how to delete a partition from your computer's hard disk.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-a-hard-disk-partition ^[1]

Tip 2 - Remove Your PC’s Recovery Partition and Take Control of Your Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Paul Bachmann | permalink

If you’ve bought a PC with Windows 8 installed, you may be surprised to find that there is not quite as much storage space available as you would expect based on the size of your hard drive. This could be for a couple of reasons, including a Windows recovery image occupying several gigabytes.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/139710/remove-your-pc%25E2%2580%2599s-recovery-partition-and-take-control-of-your-hdd/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Can't delete hard drive partitions for clean install

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Shielda Wheaton | permalink

Yesterday I formatted my hard drive, but for some reason it created multiple partitions on it's own. I'm trying to clean install Widows 8, but the C: drive only has 100 mb on it, with the other Ter

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1953206/delete-hard-drive-partitions-clean-install.html ^[3]