How To Delete Protected Partitions in Windows 10

How to remove partitions you can not delete using Disk Management.

[pamauger]

Bless you. I can't thank you enough for this. You didn't waste time explaining why this happens, you just showed how to deal with it.

[cavelion]

This is the most complex procedure I've ever done to my PC. Thank You so much! Buy the way, the disk was connected via USB, worked anyway.

[srjwari]

Thank you! even in 2024 this video is helping users! - I knew there was a way but it's been years since I had to rebuild a disk and it's partitions. I used an application that was expensive but I didnt want to re-pay for the newer license. This saved money and and time, thank you!

[kevykevTPA]

Awesome tutorial to fix a problem that I've been looking for a solution for. Most of the other "tutorials" are just poorly disguised commercials trying to sell me this or that utility. Thanks.

[christophert]

Worked perfect for me. On the C drive, the System Reserved, OS, and Recovery partition was on the same disk. The commands worked great. This was a VMware 6.5 vm, the OS was server 2016. Thank you!!

[URTechDotCa]

... Glad to hear this is helping so many people. We were getting soooo many questions from people about the process.

[brandonmejia]

Wow, you're a literal blessing. Was losing my mind.

[mikegoodson]

Works every time this is like the sixth time I had a hard drive and it works for me thank you great job

[zekevillafana]

this worked thank you been a year on and off trying to figure it out thanks alot

[danielmendez]

Amazing! Finally a video that got the job done!
Thank you!

[SavageSimba]

I hard formatted my 1TB HDD (including OEM/recovery partitions) and will use it as storage into my new laptop. Both laptops used Windows 10 Home 64-bit. So I should be able to install my OS into my SSD as the default boot drive, then be able to insert my 1TB HDD and give it a "New Simple Volume" and be able to use that for all my data. Can you clarify if I am correct? Thank you so much.

[edwinirias]

what a beast ive been looking all over for this and you the only one that made it happen keep it going king lol

[mikemalby]

Thanks for this - great, simple explanation.

[LegendaryGodKing]

Most users, dont know how to use the partitions, NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO REMOVE THEM WITHOUT FORCE! lol thanks you actually helped me out a bunch! you got my thumbs up!

[utuber]

You're a Master! Thank you so much!

[createrslk]

this video was helpful brother thanks you are the best!

[akennsk]

Hi man tryin those on a removable sd card with two partition on it that where created by my nintendo switch and nothing happen powershell tells me that the partition has been succesfully deleted but there still there and nothing has changed in the disk management do you have any ideas ? thanks

[Clipper_Dames]

Awesome tut thanks dude, still works in 2020

[jboy]

I ran diskpart on the partition (System Reserved) prior to boot drive. But C drive does not give me the option to extend volume. Can you help?

[peshangfx]

I deleted the Linux system I installed in one drive with this method, thank you so much!