Deleting volumes on a disk with diskpart

[Thorsten Bunke]

Hi,

I have a old hdd with some partitions on it which I will delete to reformat the hdd.

I got this with diskpart:

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Bst  Bezeichnung  DS     Typ         Größe    Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     C   XXX        NTFS   Partition    237 GB  Fehlerfre  Startpar
  Volume 1         ESP          FAT32  Partition    100 MB  Fehlerfre  System
  Volume 2         Recovery     NTFS   Partition   1024 MB  Fehlerfre  Versteck
  Volume 3     D   Data         NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Fehlerfre
  Volume 4     E                RAW    Partition    909 GB  Fehlerfre
  Volume 5         WINRE_DRV    NTFS   Partition   1000 MB  Fehlerfre  Versteck
  Volume 6         SYSTEM_DRV   FAT32  Partition    260 MB  Fehlerfre  Versteck
  Volume 7         PBR_DRV      NTFS   Partition     20 GB  Fehlerfre  Versteck

I will delete the volumes 7, 6 and 5 and merge this with 4 or make a new bigger volume with all space on drive e:.

I choose

DISKPART> select volume 7

Volume 7 ist jetzt das gewählte Volume.

DISKPART> delete volume

This brings an error. Diskpart goes down and restart. The volume will not be deleted.

Second try:

DISKPART> select volume 7

Volume 7 ist jetzt das gewählte Volume.

DISKPART>attributes volume clear hidden

Fehler beim Dienst für virtuelle Datenträger:
Objekt wurde nicht gefunden.

Where is the error? What can I do to delete the volumes and get one big volume on drive e:?

Thank you!

[#2]

Hi Thorsten,

Did you start your command prompt as an administrator?

Go to start => Begin typing command => Right click on Command Prompt => Choose Run as Administrator.

Best regards,

Ruud Gijsbers

[#3]

Yes, I did. The error is still present.

[#4]

What happens when you try to delete it from the GUI using Disk Management? Do you see any error message in the Event Log?

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Thanks. I used a third party tool. MiniTool Partition Wizard Free managed this.