How To Delete Active System Partition In Windows 10

 Do you want to delete Active System Partition in Windows 10? If yes, then you are in the right place. Disk Management is an essential tool that is built-in in Windows OS, so you might use this free tool to do disk management. When you want to delete a system partition, it is likely to be failed because of Delete Volume feature is greyed out in Disk Management on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Why fail to erase system partition?

In system partition, there is a primary partition that contains a boot loader which is used to boot your OS. So, the partition or segment which holds the boot sector can be set active/enable, alternatively, your PC is unbootable. Therefore, if you wish to remove your system partition, Windows Disk Management stops doing this work.

You can also view the partition on disk 1 is labeled “System, Active, Primary Partition“, so it is not allowed to be removed or formatted in Windows 7/8/10. Rather than, partition C is can be removed because delete is not allowed on the current system, boot, pagefile, crashdump, or hibernation volume.

How to fix this issue? Don’t fret, it is easy or simple and there are some methods below.

Steps To Delete Active System Partition In Windows 7/8/10

Generally, you might select to delete a system partition in two cases:

• At first, you should install two OS on your PC. Now you don’t need to use one OS and plan to remove it. Or you like to remove one active system partition to free up some storage space. Then, you might use the unassigned space to create a new partition.
• If you like to reinstall a new OS to its original location, maybe you choose to wipe the earlier OS.

Here, this article will explain to you how to remove the system’s active primary partition in a single or dual system on your PC.

Case 1: Remove System Volume in Single OS

As for many of you, only one OS is installed on your PC. Usually, probably there is something that went wrong with your OS. Like the blue screen, system breakdown, black screen, or slow running speed, so a new reinstallation becomes the best choice.

Before you reinstall, you might select to remove the system partition in Disk Management, however, it is not allowed. In this situation, how to achieve our target? Actually, it is very easy and simple in Windows 7/8/10.

Note: Before you remove the active system partition, make sure the confidential data on your hard drive is backed up.

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