Thursday, May 13, 2010

Windows Partitions

Windows Vista created a partition on a drive that I planned to use as a backup destination. Couldn't delete it (EFI 200mb) through the disk manager so I found this for use from the CLI.

1. From command prompt, enter: diskpart
2. list disk
3. select disk ###
4. clean

That should wipe out all partitions (no prompting, so be careful!)

If that doesn't do it, you can do a follow up with:
5. dban (which will wipe out all partitions if 4 didn't do it)

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