I wish to delete the DATA partition

Hi,

Similar issue to many here; I manuf. has partitioned a single HDD into an OS and a DATA partitions. And since everything defaults to saving and installing in the OS partition... it's gotten full

I wish to delete the DATA partition (logical drive) and extend the OS partition into it.



However, despite reading what has worked for so many here, I have run into a problem: the delete volume function for the DATA partition is not available (greyed out). The left most partition was the only one that could be deleted; I have done so (and hopefully that was not a bad thing?)

I know it's been about half a year since the last post, so hopefully someone will see this and be able to help.

As you deleted your Recovery Partition, I hope you made the Recovery Disks first.
You do have data on that partition backup first.

Try method two in this tutorial:
Partition or Volume - Delete
Partition or Volume - Extend

It may not let you delete it because the page file is stored there.
Right click on Computer, select Properties.
Select Advanced System settings
Under Performance, select Settings.
Then the Advanced tab.
Next to Virtual memory, select Change.
Make sure the page file is set to the C: drive not the D: drive.

The logical partition cannot be deleted unless it is empty, which means you need to move the data to somewhere like an external drive or another partition first.

Once you've done that you should be able to delete the logical partition and extend your C drive.

Here is the requested full view

THe only thing that was in Data partition, that i could see, was a TON of txt files... eula's. I deleted everything, and it remains impossible to delete the partition =(

karlsnooks said:

Excellent!

Now put your pagefile on your C drive and try again.

My what? >.> and how?

ty everyone ^^b