Programs that allow you to delete a hard disk partition and perform other operations on it are called disk managers. There are a lot of such programs: Partition Logic, BootIt Next Generation, Partition Manager, Acronis Disk Director and others. In the last of the listed programs, the operation to remove a hard disk partition is reduced to a set of simple sequential actions.
Instructions
Step 1
Start Acronis Disk Director.
In the right part of the main window of the program, you will see all hard drives installed on the computer, as well as all existing partitions on them. Please note that at the top the disk partitions will be shown in the form of separate icons, which cannot be used to judge the number of physically installed hard drives. At the bottom, you will see partitions grouped by hard drives on which they are directly located. One physical disk can have multiple partitions. You can reduce or increase their size, respectively, increasing or decreasing the volumes of adjacent partitions located on the same hard disk.
Step 2
In the upper part of the window, define the partition of the disk that you want to delete. Click on it with the right mouse button and select the "Delete" command in the pop-up menu. The section icon will turn into "Unallocated space". If you need to do some further operations, for example, to increase the size of a neighboring disk partition at the expense of the freed up space, select the appropriate command in the "Wizards" in the left part of the main program window.
Step 3
After all the settings for the operations have been made, click on the black and white flag located in the tool window under the menu bar. You will see a window with a complete list of operations performed. Confirm the actions by clicking the "Proceed" button. After everything is ready, the program will display a window with a service message stating that all operations were completed successfully.
