Windows 10: Deleting or Formatting a Partition

Discus and support Deleting or Formatting a Partition in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I will re-try the clean install and see if any options to delete/format comes up - if not maybe try the HD into a different PC and see if I can do it... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Woodnome, Dec 4, 2017.

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  1. WOODNOME
    Woodnome Win User

    Deleting or Formatting a Partition


    I will re-try the clean install and see if any options to delete/format comes up - if not maybe try the HD into a different PC and see if I can do it that way.

    I'll still post a pic of the disk partitions tonight before I attempt anything.

    Thanks for your help btw *Biggrin
     
    Woodnome, Dec 4, 2017
    #16
  2. ESSENBE
    essenbe Win User

    If you use the installer and go to command prompt, you should have no problem using Diskpart from there.
     
    essenbe, Dec 4, 2017
    #17
  3. WOODNOME
    Woodnome Win User
    I'll try that too essenbe
     
    Woodnome, Dec 4, 2017
    #18
  4. ESSENBE
    essenbe Win User

    Deleting or Formatting a Partition

    If you boot into the installer and hold Shift then press F10, you will get a cmd prompt. Alternatively when you get to the window of where do you want to install, you can highlight each partition and press delete to delete all partitions.
     
    essenbe, Dec 4, 2017
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  5. WOODNOME
    Woodnome Win User
    when you say boot into the installer do you mean when I boot into the Win10 install DVD ??
     
    Woodnome, Dec 4, 2017
    #20
  6. KYHI
    Kyhi Win User
    Boot into my Rescue Media...
    Then use aomie partition assistant to Copy/clone the D;/ partition to the C:/ partition
    Then delete the D:/ partition
    OR Even better...
    just wipe both drives, format the D:/ Drive and then run setup.exe from the mounted windows 10 ISO
    selecting the unallocated Drive as the installation drive..
     
    Kyhi, Dec 4, 2017
    #21
  7. ESSENBE
    essenbe Win User
    Yes. You will see this screen


    Deleting or Formatting a Partition [​IMG]


    Highlight each partition one at a time and click delete. until it shows as unallocated like in the screenshot.
     
    essenbe, Dec 4, 2017
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  8. ZBOOK
    zbook New Member

    Deleting or Formatting a Partition

    Once you are able to reinstall windows please indicate the steps that you made to clean the drive and install Windows 10. The steps that are usual are in post #8 and essembe displayed them in post #20. Did they fail again? If you try diskpart again let us know the fail error. Were you able to use the steps that Kyhi listed?
     
    zbook, Dec 4, 2017
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  9. WOODNOME
    Woodnome Win User
    Ok - I will try all of this tonight - thanks again guys
     
    Woodnome, Dec 4, 2017
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  10. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member
    And to further emphasis the point - you have to boot the computer from the Windows 10 installation DVD or USB flash drive. You can't just run setup.exe from it if you are wanting to delete the partitions on the drive.
     
    NavyLCDR, Dec 4, 2017
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  11. WOODNOME
    Woodnome Win User
    Thanks guys - all sorted !!

    I used the Win10 setup to sort it out and don't know why the particular page did not come up the first time !

    All done *Biggrin happy days !
     
    Woodnome, Dec 5, 2017
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  12. ESSENBE
    essenbe Win User
    Great, glad you got everything the way you wanted it Well done.
     
    essenbe, Apr 5, 2018
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