[SOLVED] Old System Partition Not Deleting

[Jacob 51]

I Installed windows on a new ssd. I have a 1 TB WD Blue HDD that I installed Windows on before. It has two partitions, one is 814 GB and other is 117 GB. The old system partition (Which I formatted already in windows Setup) is not DELETING
The "Delete Partition" option is greyed out.

What do I do to delete this partition? I really want that extra space added to my main partition

 

[COLGeek]

Try booting the system with GParted (see below) and using it to remove everything from the HDD.

https://gparted.org/liveusb.php

 

[Jacob 51]

Try booting the system with GParted (see below) and using it to remove everything from the HDD.

https://gparted.org/liveusb.php

Um, That Can't Be Done Because I Got Valuable Data And Nowhere To Backup It

 

[COLGeek]

Um, That Can't Be Done Because I Got Valuable Data And Nowhere To Backup It

Then use Gparted to remove the one partition you are having trouble with and then expand the other one to use all the space,

You really should sort out a backup of your valuable data before doing ANYTHING with that HDD.

 

[Jacob 51]

Then use Gparted to remove the one partition you are having trouble with and then expand the other one to use all the space,

You really should sort out a backup of your valuable data before doing ANYTHING with that HDD.

I removed that partition and it caused the system to not boot anymore. It was probably because the boot files were stored there, Anyway, I copied the boot files to the C drive with CMD and BOOM! It works.

 

[COLGeek]

I removed that partition and it caused the system to not boot anymore. It was probably because the boot files were stored there, Anyway, I copied the boot files to the C drive with CMD and BOOM! It works.

Glad you sorted it out. Well done.