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Remove a Partition From external Hard Drive

Anonymous
2010-08-13T18:18:01+00:00

I just purchased a 500 gb external USB HDD. It has a small partition of 400mb that I want to combine with the other partition to have one partition. The small partition is reported as a CD drive and UDF file system and has data. The large partition is a NTFS.

What is the best way to delete the small partition? Can I or should I do it form Disk Management?

Thanks,

James

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-24T13:37:18+00:00

    You can simply go to the disc management and extend volume.It automatically add up the partitioned. Simple and no stress...

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-14T19:40:03+00:00

    The recovery cd/dvd set came with the system. Not sure if I'm going to do it, yet. The first screen that comes up when I boot is a blue HP screen with what keys to press for say Recovery, Setup and the like. So, I'm not sure what will happen if all that is gone when I remove the partition.

    James

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-14T19:10:14+00:00

    Before you do anything with the recovery partition you should create the recovery cd / dvd set - even if you have created an Backup Recovery using the Win7 Tool

    The HP support or documentation pages will detail how to do this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-14T18:47:55+00:00

    Actually the UDF drive the "Delete Volume" is grayed out. I had to get WD Smartware manager to only hide the partition. Not sure what else I can do to comletely delete the volume.

    Also, on my HP computer there is a recovery partition on the same disc as my OS I would like to reclaim. If I right click on the recovery partition and select "Delete Volume" this space will automatically get added to the volume of the OS partition?

    It's sort of nice having a recovery partition but I just discovered that Windows 7 Home Premium has a Backup and Recovery. I'v created an image and a recovery disc on my cd drive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-08-14T14:14:05+00:00

    Hi,

    That’s right you can do this from Disk Management.  Before you delete this partition you are recommended to make a backup of your data as it will delete all the data.

    Refer to the article below for steps and additional information.

    Delete a hard disk partition

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Delete-a-hard-disk-partition

    After you delete the partition you can repartition the hard drive.

    Can I repartition my hard disk?

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Can-I-repartition-my-hard-disk

    Hope this helps.

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