unable to delete partition

[yawnmoth]

I'm in the Storage -> Disk Management section of Computer Management
and see a hard drive with three partitions. On two of the partitions,
if I right click, I see the following menu options:

Open
Explore
----
Change Drive Letter and Paths...
Format...
----
Delete Logical Drive...
----
Properties
----
Help

On the third partition, however, all I see is this:

----
Help

How can I delete this partition? The partition, presumably, contains
restore functionality for a computer I bought a while ago, but... the
motherboard failed and I'd now like to use the hard drive in another
computer.

Any ideas?

 

[philo]

I'm in the Storage -> Disk Management section of Computer Management
and see a hard drive with three partitions. On two of the partitions,
if I right click, I see the following menu options:

Open
Explore
----
Change Drive Letter and Paths...
Format...
----
Delete Logical Drive...
----
Properties
----
Help

On the third partition, however, all I see is this:

----
Help

How can I delete this partition? The partition, presumably, contains
restore functionality for a computer I bought a while ago, but... the
motherboard failed and I'd now like to use the hard drive in another
computer.

Any ideas?

If it was an HP machine google for: HP recovery manager

They have a utility for deleting and merging that locked partition.

If it's was not an HP...
go to the website of the mfg to see if they have a similar utility.

BTW: It's probably not a very large partition
and you may not gain that much extra room on the drive...so it may not be
worth the effort

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

I'm in the Storage -> Disk Management section of Computer Management
and see a hard drive with three partitions.  On two of the partitions,
if I right click, I see the following menu options:

Open
Explore
----
Change Drive Letter and Paths...
Format...
----
Delete Logical Drive...
----
Properties
----
Help

On the third partition, however, all I see is this:

----
Help

How can I delete this partition?  The partition, presumably, contains
restore functionality for a computer I bought a while ago, but...  the
motherboard failed and I'd now like to use the hard drive in another
computer.

Any ideas?

Is it really a partition, or just unallocated space?

Is it the Extended partition which actually holds the two Logical
partitions?

If it's a partiton type which XP's partition management doesn't
recognise, you might need something like gParted, or BootItNG to re-
partition as you want.
gParted is free, BootItNG is free trial for 30(?) days, which should
be long enough for you to fix your drive.

Good luck.

Good luck

 

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

Get the GParted Live CD which you can boot from. It contains the GParted
Partition Manager program which provides a GUI based interface to
managing your partitions. It handles Windows file systems as well as
Linux and is free.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Later, Ray Parrish

 

[Matthew]

Click Format... .

I'm in the Storage -> Disk Management section of Computer Management
and see a hard drive with three partitions. On two of the partitions,
if I right click, I see the following menu options:

Open