Deleting a partition...

Saltire · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Karma :

Hey, losing the will to live here.

I've tried in CMD the Diskpart > list partition > select partition # > delete partition override. (in a few different CMD paths resulting in the 'delete partition override'.

But instead of it overriding the damn thing I just get 'Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume'.

What? The? Fuck?

Also tried the standard disk management option and a third party program but no luck.

I have already followed instructions and successfully set it to inactive. So I am trumped.

PLEASE help.

Jewlio Iglesias · Banned Joined: 10 Jan 2015 Karma :

You're not trying to delete the partition that you're accessing while logged onto Windows, are you? Laughing

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Saltire · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Karma :

Obviously not. It's on an external hard drive.

Any non smart ass replies would be cool. From people that actually know the answer.

b422063 · Crazy Courier Joined: 14 Oct 2014 Karma :

Use a Ubuntu boot disk and use Gparted to perform it?

Seb · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Karma :

Tried selecting the drive and using the clean command (assuming you haven't got other vital partitions on there)?

select disk x
clean

otherwise paste up output from detail part pls.
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B0ndy · Spanner Monkey Joined: 25 May 2015 Karma :

Are you running the CMD or Powershell prompt as Admin?
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Get this, it's free, do what you want.

Jewlio Iglesias · Banned Joined: 10 Jan 2015 Karma :

kawakid · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

Have you tried booting to Windows PE and then trying again.

Diskpart.
List disk
Select disk x
List partition
Select partition y
Delete
Exit

X and y being the relevant disk and partition

But like the other poster said. Just do a clean
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covent.gardens · World Clap Champion Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Karma :