7 Responses for "How Do I Delete A Partition Of My Hard Drive Without Affecting The Files On The Other Partition?"

1. Fed up with the crap here November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 1

   If you are trying to extend your OS partition to occupy the entire 300gigs, there’s programs that will do it for you. Years ago I used to use a program called “partition magic” on my fat32 drives. I’ve never used them on ntfs drives, but I would expect that these programs have “kept up with the times”, so to speak.

2. tommy November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 2

   Yes, but if you delete it that will amount as just empty space.
   if you know how, I would burn ‘gparted’ to a disk, and use that to delete and move your partition space.
   if I recall correctly the partition manager on the windows disk is very basic and wont be able to preform a combine of space. note that it takes a good hour, hour & a half just to move a single partition. so make sure you have time.

3. Candy November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 3

   It will simply delete the partition without affecting the other partition. However, it will not extend the partition into the new empty space. To do that, you’ll have to go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management, and extend the partition.

4. WP Robot Wordpress Autoposter November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 4

   Just reformat the partition in question.
   If you want to save all the files, simply copy them all from one partition to the other, then delete the empty partition.

5. Tyler R November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 5

   yes it will you can delete partitions but not create them without wiping your hard drive

6. Nicasio1 November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 6

   I believe you can not just delete a partition. But I still would advise you to back up first and then try it. Good luck

7. poolekit November 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm 7

   Partition Magic