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QuestionCan you unpartition a hard drive?Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years.You can delete them, but unless you're totally sure you know what you're doing, I wouldn't recommend it. On Windows 8 and 10, there are a lot of backup/recovery partitions, and if you delete the wrong one on accident, you may damage your operating system.
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QuestionIs it safe to delete all partitions?Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years.If you're talking about partitions that you personally created and are no longer using, sure. If you're talking about the "built-in" partitions created by Windows, then I wouldn't touch those.
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QuestionAre there any programs you can use to edit partitions?Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years.Yes, I'm personally really fond of Partition Magic. It makes it really easy to edit and monitor changes on partition drives, and it will keep you from dramatically altering a partition before you know what your change is going to do.
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QuestionI want to remove the partition and reallocate the space to C drive. When I right click on C, the extend volume is in grey. How do I get the unallocated portion to C?Community AnswerBefore you reallocate the space to C drive, you need to delete the partition you don't want first. To do so, right click on the unwanted partition and click "Delete volume." Once you do that there should be an "Unallocated space." Now you can right click on C to extend volume.
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QuestionI'm running Windows 7 and followed the instructions to unpartition. The bar on the header of the partition is yellow, not black, and when I right click on C, "Extend volume" is grayed out. What next?A RCommunity AnswerYou may be better off formatting the drive completely after transferring the files to another location (a computer that is not running Windows 7).
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