Windows xp computer management delete partition

Before performing deleting in Windows Disk Management, please pay attention to following points:. You cannot delete a system partition on any Windows computer.

All data on the deleted partition would be erased permanently. Open Disk Management on Windows computer. Right click any partition except system partition and select Delete Partition option. On Windows 7, 8, 10, you may select Delete Volume option.

Confirm to delete the selected partition, after which the selected partition would show as free space under Disk Management. Well, Disk Management is only able to delete each partition one by one. You cannot delete all partitions on a disk at the same time. Diskpart is a little more complex than Disk Management to delete all partitions on a computer because it does not have a user-friendly interface.

However, if you have a little knowledge about computer, you will also find it easy to handle. Please follow the guide below:. Open Command Line on Windows computer and then type diskpart Step2. Type list disk Step3. Type select disk number e. Type select disk 0, select disk 1…It depends on which disk you want to delete.

Type list partition Step5. Windows XP does not have any built-in partition magic software for disk partition resizing.

If you want to redistribute disk space whether on 32 bit or 64 bit in Windows XP, you may free to delete some or all partitions on your computer. You can repartition the unallocated space and create new partition on Windows XP. Backup your data stored on each partition before deleting. Otherwise, you may lose everything on your computer. Without deleting any partition, you can resize partition on Windows XP 32 and 64 bit by using free partition software for Windows XP.

Usually, you can use this free partition tool to shrink partition, move partition and extend partition so as to reallocate disk space on your computer. Usually, you can use this software to extend system partition because deleting partition on Windows XP cannot help increase size of system partition.

Move all important data from these two partitions to another partition or external hard drive. Right click one of the partitions that you want to merge and then click Delete Partition option. Click Yes to confirm to delete the selected partition. Right click the other partition that you want to merge and then click Delete Partition option and also click Yes button to confirm to delete it. The deleted two partitions will show as unallocated partition under Disk Management.

You only need to right click the unallocated partition and click New Partition option. Follow the New Partition Wizard to create a new partition. And then, you can format the new partition and assign a drive letter to this partition to make it usable for data storage. It is usually more difficult if you need to combine C drive with another partition on Windows XP because PC does not allow you to delete C drive.

Therefore, you cannot use the method above to merge a data partition to C drive.