How to delete Ubuntu virtual desktop and free up allocated space in windows 8?

Question

_{Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:16 PM}

I have tried out Hyper-V for the first time to install Ubuntu desktop. During the installation process, 10GB of space is allocated. I believe this space would have been  created as a separate partition and formatted to linux file system. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Now I would like to remove the Ubuntu virtual desktop and free up the allocated space. I have deleted the desktop from the Hyper-V manager. Is this sufficient to free up the space?

Disk partition tool shows following partitions

Volume Layout Type FS Status Capacity Free

Volume (C;) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy(Boot, Page File ...) 218GB 8GB 

Volume <nolabel>  Simple Basic Healthy(Recovery Partition) 450MB 450MB 

Volume <nolabel>  Simple Basic Healthy(Recovery Partition) 350MB 350MB 

Volume <nolabel>  Simple Basic Healthy(Recovery Partition) 10.5GB 10.5GB 

Volume <nolabel>  Simple Basic Healthy(EFI System Partition) 260MB 260MB 

Volume <nolabel>  Simple Basic Healthy(Primary Partition) 8GB 8GB

I am not sure of the unnamed, unused volume. Hence I listed all.

However Diskpart tool in command prompt does not show the last one [ 8gb]. Does this mean if this was allocated to Virtual desktop? Please help 

All replies (2)

_{Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:42 PM ✅Answered}

You must delete the VHDx that you created when you created the VM.

This is the virtual disk that Ubuntu was installed into - you will not see this as a volume, you will see this as a VHDx file.

Brian Ehlert
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_{Thursday, January 15, 2015 8:32 AM}

Thank you. This helped...