How to Remove a Hard Drive Partition Using Gparted

Last Updated: July 28, 2015 Tested

If an operating system installation should fail you must remove the partition with the failed operating system. This will give room to try to install the operating system again.

Steps

1
Download GParted live CD from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/
2
Burn ISO Image to CD.

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3
Boot computer from live CD.
4
Wait to boot from default option.
5
Double click on GParted option on desktop.
6
Wait for a window to open.
7
Determine the partition with the broken operating system.
8
Right click and select 'delete'.
9
Click tick to apply.
10
Read warning and confirm.
11
Wait for process to finish.
12
Restart computer.

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Warnings

This will destroy all data on the partition you delete. This isn't to say you won't have a chance of recovery but think before you delete!

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Never do this unless you backed up your partition table, in case this is damaged by a power cut.

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Do not do this unless you are experienced with partitions, I accept no responsibility. If in doubt ask a knowledgeable friend to do this.

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