Cant format partition.

dpiralis

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I have 2 partitions windows 10 and windows 8. i want to extend windows 10 partition so i have to delete the old one but i cant! To recognize in what partition is my operation system i typed on Run %windir% ==> C:\Windows . So i have to delete D:\ partition but i cant! How to remove the other partition and to extend windows 10 ?
 

psoohoo

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when you setup dual boot. the win8 partition contains the files the boot the machine (yes its called system partition). Those files may include BOOT.INI and NTLDR. the win10 partition contains the files need to start Windows 10 (the boot partition)

not sure there is an easy way to fix this