Easily Delete a Hard Disk partition with Paragon Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition in 3 steps tutorial
There are many reasons to delete a partition. For example, You want to enlarge your system partition by getting rid of the recovery partition because you imaged your entire drive with drive imaging software, so you have no need for the system recovery parttion anymore. Maybe you need a larger partition to store a large file which is bigger then your current partition on a drive with multiple partitions with a lot of empty space, or you need to free up some partitions to install an operating system which uses lots of space.
Paragon Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition lets users delete partitions, and re-size partitions still on the hard drive to fill up the unallocated hard disk space left behind after you deleted the partion within Windows with Partition Manager 2010.
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1. Back up all your files on to another drive before you begin just incase something goes wrong or you made an error.
2. Open up Paragon Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition, and right click the partition you want to delete, and pick delete partition.
2. Type in the ”label” name for your drive, and click YES.
3. Click the Apply button on the top right of the main Window.
Wait for Paragon Paragon Partition Manager 2010 to finish its job, and you are done.
If you want to re-size your remaining partition to fill up the unallocated space read my tutorial on Resizing and making a partition with Paragon Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition in 5 easy steps
Otherwise, you can use the unallocated space to install Ubuntu, another Operating System, or just use Window’s Computer Management’s Disk Management to partition and reformat your unallocated space. Disk Management can not re-size your remaining partition to fill up your unallocated space like Partition Manager 2010. You will have to delete all partitions and files on your drive with Window’s disk management, and repartition and format your drive again.
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