How to Delete Volumes or Partitions That Disk Management Can't Remove

If you are trying to delete or remove some volumes\partitions using the Windows Disk Managment tool, you may find that the delete volume option is greyed out or even missing. This can happen when trying to delete the EFI system partition or the Windows recovery partition. To get around this problem you can use the diskpart command or the free NIUBI Partition Editor software to remove these volumes and get your space back.

Here is a video showing you how to delete all the partitions on a drive in one step.
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Here is a link where you can download the NIUBI Partition Editor software.
https://www.hdd-tool.com/index.html

Here is a writeup of the process on our website.
https://onlinecomputertips.com/suppor...

Here are the Diskpart commands from the video. Just be sure to change the numbers for the select disk and select partition commands to match your hard drive configuration.

Diskpart
list disk
select disk 2
list partition
select partition 1
delete partition override

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