Or, to delete an existing partition, right-click the partition and select Delete
Volume.
If you delete a partition, all the data on that volume will be
permanently lost. This happens immediately, and there is no
undo. Data on other partitions of the same physical drive
won??™t be affected. If you wish to make a partition smaller or
larger without erasing the data, see the ???Resize and move
partitions??? section, which follows.
In most cases, newly created or deleted partitions will appear (or disappear)
in Windows Explorer immediately.
Resize and move partitions
Say you just bought a laptop with an 80 GB hard disk and then discover that
Windows Explorer only sees about 70 GB of it. You open Disk Management
and discover that there??™s an extra partition, labeled ???Recovery,??? consuming
about 8 GB. How do you get rid of the extra partition and reclaim
all that space for your data?
Or, perhaps you??™ve decided to divide a 320 GB hard disk??”one that??™s currently
holding an active Windows installation??”into two 160 GB partitions.
How do you make space for the second partition without deleting the single
partition that??™s currently using the whole disk?
The solution is to resize the partition, which??”thanks to some improvements
in Disk Manager since Windows XP??”is not all that hard to do. And
you don??™t even have to take the data off first. (Of course, despite this confident
prose, it??™s still wise to back up your entire drive before messing with
partitions.
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