Sometimes it comes to a time where you need to delete partitions with windows and the diskmanager is not able to.
I got a harddrive with 6 windows partitions here. To delete them all you can use a commandlinetool called diskpart.
Start a console with administrative rights and type-in
diskpart
After this you can list all your disks with
list disk
select your preferred disk. Best thing is to choose them by the size. If you have two equal sized disks just disconnect the one, list the disks and then connect it again, list the disks and you see which one is new.
DISKPART> list disk Datenträger ### Status Größe Frei Dyn GPT --------------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Datenträger 0 Online 149 GB 0 B Datenträger 1 Online 119 GB 0 B DISKPART>
Now select the disk with
select disk 0
now you can list the partition
list partition
result:
Partition ### Typ Größe Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primär 149 GB 1024 KB DISKPART>
now you can select the partition
select partition 0
and delete the partition with
delete partition override
the parameter override is needed for protected partitions.
For more partitions and harddrives you can prepare something like this:
select partition 0 delete partition override select partition 1 delete partition override select partition 2 delete partition override select partition 3 delete partition override select partition 4 delete partition override select partition 5 delete partition override select partition 6 delete partition override
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