How Do You Delete Partitions On A Hard Drive?
A partition is an area on a hard drive seen as a separate drive by the operating system. Deleting a partition may be necessary to perform a clean installation of an operating system or to remove all data from the hard drive before donating or selling your computer. The system program Fdisk allows you to delete partitions. Insert the bootable floppy or CD into the appropriate drive. Restart your computer. When the startup process begins, press the appropriate key–usually Delete, F1 or F2–to enter the BIOS, or system setup, menu. Refer to your motherboard or computer manual to find out which key should be used. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, navigate to the BIOS boot-sequence menu and and press “Enter.” Set the first boot device to whichever drive holds your boot disk. Consult onscreen instructions to accomplish this. Save the BIOS changes according to the onscreen instructions. Exit the setup screen, and the computer will boot to the floppy or CD. A command prompt (for example,
