A disk partition can be removed in several ways:
Removing a partition directly in Windows
1) In Control Panel, open Administrative Tools
2) Select Computer Management
3) Select Storage
4) Select Disk Management
5) Right-click the desired partition and select Delete Partition
This procedure does not allow you to remove the active partition (from which the system is currently running).
Removing a partition using the Windows XP installation CD
1) Boot the computer from the Windows installation CD
2) Wait for the installation interface to load
3) Select to start the Windows XP installation
4) Accept the license terms
5) Select installation of a new system
6) Select the relevant disk partition
7) Press the D key to delete the disk partition
8) Confirm and complete the partition removal
Procedure for Windows 10 installation USB/DVD
1) Boot the computer from the Windows 10 installation DVD or USB
2) Wait for the installation interface to load
3) Continue with the Windows 10 installation program until you are prompted to choose the installation type.
4) Select “Custom” and the disks with partitions will be displayed
5) Here you can select any partition and delete it using the ‘Delete’ button
6) Confirm and complete the partition removal
Other tools used to remove partitions:
Acronis Disk Director software allows you to create new disk partitions, resize partitions, delete partitions, edit disks, and much more.
| Features | Software | |||
| Acronis True Image |
Acronis Backup |
Acronis Disk Director |
Acronis Disk Director (Workstation, Server, Technician license) |
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| What environment is the product suitable for | ||||
| For households | Yes | Yes | ||
| For organizations of all sizes | Yes | Yes | ||
| What types of machines are supported | ||||
| Computers running Windows OS (Windows 7, 8, 10) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Computers running Mac OS (Apple computers) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Physical Windows and Linux servers | Yes | Yes | ||
| Virtual machines (VMware, Hyper-V, RHEV, Citrix, KVM) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Cloud machines (Azure, Amazon EC2) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Mobile devices based on iOS and Android | Yes | Yes | ||
| What can be backed up | ||||
| Full machine backups (disk, volume, partition images) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Data backups (files and folders) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Database backups (Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, AD, Oracle) | Yes | |||
| How backup is managed | ||||
| Backup is managed directly from the backed-up machine | Yes | |||
| Backup and recovery are managed centrally, from one location | Yes | |||
| Remote installation of agents on backed-up machines | Yes | |||
| Backup can be started manually at any time | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backup can be scheduled to run automatically | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backed-up machines can be divided into groups | Yes | |||
| Backup can be managed by subordinate administrators | Yes | |||
| Option to set up email backup notifications | Yes | |||
| Backup options | ||||
| Full, incremental, and differential backups | Yes | Yes | ||
| Always incremental scheme, GFS scheme, custom scheme | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backups can be encrypted with a custom password (AES 256 standard) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backups are compressed automatically | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backups can be deduplicated | Yes | |||
| Backups can be stored in multiple repositories simultaneously | Yes | |||
| Where backups can be stored | ||||
| Local disks, external disks, USB disks | Yes | Yes | ||
| Network storage including NAS | Yes | Yes | ||
| Tape drives and tape libraries | Yes | |||
| FTP servers | Yes | |||
| SFTP servers | Yes | |||
| Acronis cloud storage (for an additional fee) | Yes | Yes | ||
| How recovery from backups can be performed | ||||
| From the operating system – if the machine is working | Yes | Yes | ||
| From bootable media that can be created (CD/DVD, USB) | Yes | Yes | ||
| A machine without a functioning OS can also be restored | Yes | Yes | ||
| Recovery can be performed to a machine with different hardware | Yes | Yes | ||
| Recovery can be started remotely from central management | Yes | |||
| Recovery can also be performed to a larger or smaller disk | Yes | Yes | ||
| Partition sizes can be changed during recovery | Yes | Yes | ||
| Recovery can be performed from HDD to SSD and vice versa | Yes | Yes | ||
| What can be restored from a backup | ||||
| Entire disk, volume, partition | Yes | Yes | ||
| Required data (files and folders) from both data and image backups | Yes | Yes | ||
| Entire databases or individual database parts | Yes | |||
| Virtual environment backup | ||||
| Machines can be replicated to a standby ESXi host | Yes | |||
| Backups can be automatically converted into ready-to-use virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Backups can be started as virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Backups can be restored as ready-to-use virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Backups can be restored inside virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Virtual machines can be backed up without an agent installed inside (Hyper-V and VMware) | Yes | |||
| Virtual machines can be backed up with agents installed inside the virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Support for granular recovery of virtual machines | Yes | |||
| Hard disk operations | ||||
| Support for both HDD and SSD drives | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MBR disks can be cloned using the Disk to Disk method | Yes | Yes | ||
| MBR and GPT disks can be cloned using the Disk to Backup to Disk method | Yes | Yes | ||
| Option to create new disk partitions | Yes | Yes | ||
| Option to delete a disk partition | Yes | Yes | ||
| Option to enlarge or shrink a disk partition without data loss | Yes | Yes | ||
| Option to format disk partitions | Yes | Yes | ||
| Option to merge disk partitions without data loss | Yes | Yes | ||