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Cannot delete partition
I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C:
to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? |
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On 03/17/2017 04:27 PM, Jason wrote:
[snip] delete the old C: partition, BTW, a "drive letter" (like C is not a property of the disk or partition, it is what Windows CALLS it. Drive letters have no meaning unless Windows is loaded. but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) My first HD was 30MB in size, at the time I called it "huge". "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? I guess Windows thinks it needs that partition. I'd use a Ubuntu boot disk (its not necessary to install Ubuntu, just use the GPARTED that should be included). -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." -- Charles Schulz |
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On 17/03/2017 21:27:04, Jason wrote:
I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? Try a 3rd party partitioner like Aomei or Easeus. If one of those don't do it stick it in a linux machine. -- mick |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:15:17 -0400 "Wolf K" wrote
in article Unless you know exactly what it contains, and what it's used for, leave it alone. I am going to use the disk as swap space for Audition and Premiere Pro. It won't have an operating system of any sort on it. That partition (on a Dell machine) was for system recovery. Irrelevant now. |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:22:38 GMT "mick" wrote in
article Try a 3rd party partitioner like Aomei or Easeus. If one of those don't do it stick it in a linux machin Thanks. It seems that 3rd-party apps are the way to go if diskpart won't do it, but it looks as if it will. I haven't tried it yet, just read the documentation. |
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On 03/17/2017 05:27 PM, Jason wrote:
I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? Maybe partition wizard? https://www.partitionwizard.com/free...n-manager.html |
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Jason wrote in
: I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? Are you sure that is a usable partition. If the disk is formated using the new GPT disk/partition structure, it appears to reserve a small partition at the beginning of the drive for its use. Most of my large data disks I have set up as GPT, and they all have that small reserved space that doesn't even show up under Disk Manager. But MiniTool Partition Manager shows that it exists. |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:57:00 -0500, Tim wrote:
Jason wrote in al-september.org: I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? Are you sure that is a usable partition. If the disk is formated using the new GPT disk/partition structure, it appears to reserve a small partition at the beginning of the drive for its use. Most of my large data disks I have set up as GPT, and they all have that small reserved space that doesn't even show up under Disk Manager. But MiniTool Partition Manager shows that it exists. I have one 3TB drive set up as GPT but Minitool Partition Wizard Pro does not show any reserved space on the drive. |
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Did you bother to read the replies you got on your first post
about this subject? -- Jason jason_warren ieee.DELETE.org wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jason jason_warren ieee.DELETE.org Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Cannot delete partition Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:27:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: MPG.33361eb3796bd4dc9896de reader443.eternal-september.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="033bf81d80f75fa2032bf444502223c3"; logging-data="23456"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IOk6CrbtoWDVxiR/OW37LjUONV5s6cws=" User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1/pvwamQVXuZEZfZyJY0hYupMrA= Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:38558 I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? |
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On 03/17/2017 10:57 PM, Tim wrote:
[snip] Are you sure that is a usable partition. If the disk is formated using the new GPT disk/partition structure, it appears to reserve a small partition at the beginning of the drive for its use. Most of my large data disks I have set up as GPT, and they all have that small reserved space that doesn't even show up under Disk Manager. But MiniTool Partition Manager shows that it exists. GPT disks usually have a small partition needed for UEFI booting. This partition should be unnecessary on a data-only disk (no booting from it). -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas --uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes." --Salman Rushdie |
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On 3/17/2017 4:27 PM, Jason wrote:
I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? A similar problem ---I bought a new laptop with new (then) Windows 7 installed. Then using a freeware program "Partition Magic" I created numerous partitions . That original software doesn't exist now and all I can find simply reduces each partition but leaves blank unusable space between each. How can I clean this up (I don't want to spend much --- I don't need the space --I'm just a neat freak). |
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Pfsszxt wrote:
On 3/17/2017 4:27 PM, Jason wrote: I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? A similar problem ---I bought a new laptop with new (then) Windows 7 installed. Then using a freeware program "Partition Magic" I created numerous partitions . That original software doesn't exist now and all I can find simply reduces each partition but leaves blank unusable space between each. How can I clean this up (I don't want to spend much --- I don't need the space --I'm just a neat freak). This is the one I have on the Test Machine. (Or, I can use GParted in Linux...) ******* In the left column here, is Partition Manager 14 Free. https://www.paragon-software.com/hom...nal/eshop.html There are two green CNET buttons there, and the downloads are clean. That means Paragon is paying CNET to host the file. If CNET were paying, there would be adware in there. I did not spot any adware. The one I got was pm14free_x64_eng.exe 53,091,632 bytes Now, it's an ugly piece of work, but give it a chance :-) It comes up in a kind of "tile" interface. Don't use that. You can click the middle tile, to get it into a conventional interface. Select "Switch to Full Scale Launcher". In there, most of the interface can be ignored. What they're trying to do, is get you to be "impressed" by the "pay options" and select the Unlock function. Presumably, customers fall all over themselves, whipping out their credit card before even trying the thing. You can get a manual for it too. It actually came in handy, because I found the alignment setting in there. http://download.paragon-software.com..._en_manual.pdf These are the items you'll need for "Move/Resize". First you verify the partition has the desired alignment. "Inherit" is good if you don't want things changed from how Windows set them up. Then, you click the partition and select Move/Resize from the right-click menu. https://s21.postimg.org/homqiyid3/alignment.gif https://s9.postimg.org/kteorjjf3/move_resize.gif Practice on a spare disk, until you get the hang of it :-) The tool does not win a prize for "intuitive", and you will have to keep reminding yourself "but, it was free" :-) Easeus makes one too. A freebie. HTH, Paul |
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On 3/18/2017 4:46 PM, Paul wrote:
Pfsszxt wrote: A similar problem ---I bought a new laptop with new (then) Windows 7 installed. Then using a freeware program "Partition Magic" I created numerous partitions . That original software doesn't exist now and all I can find simply reduces each partition but leaves blank unusable space between each. How can I clean this up (I don't want to spend much --- I don't need the space --I'm just a neat freak). Easeus makes one too. A freebie. HTH, Paul I downloaded the freebie. It starts to run, gives me an ad for the "Pro" edition --- then stops dead --will not then run! |
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On 3/17/2017 9:24 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 03/17/2017 05:27 PM, Jason wrote: I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C: to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How can I get rid of it? Maybe partition wizard? https://www.partitionwizard.com/free...n-manager.html Well -- if you want google to make changes in your computer--- like installing Chrome, making it your default browse and changing all the desktop icons! I had a terrible time cleaning all that up. Finally had to do a system restore to get back to where I started. related ---Partiton Magic will start a merger of partitions but then told me I had to get the "pro" edition if I wanted to move data! |
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