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To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

You must format an SD card prior to using it for storage. However, if you format the SD card into more than one partition, you can only use the active partition on the card. To delete partitions and ...

Web site HowtoForge details how to create, modify, and delete partitions using the previously-mentioned, free GParted Live CD (Gnome PARTition EDitor). The article describes the process for Linux ...

I've just ordered a Samsung NP900X3C, and would like to free myself up some space (mainly for importing photos when away). I'm happy to nuke the drive and start from scratch, I have win 8 licences (or ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...