Hello to all! I offer a short story in which I had to solve one small problem using the command line, I think it will be useful in your piggy bank of knowledge.

My friend bought a computer with a solid-state drive (120 GB) instead of a hard drive, there was simply not enough money for a simple hard drive (we all know that the prices for components have now risen). Our mutual friend decided to help him out and offered him for a while for storing files a not quite old hard SATA drive II with a volume of 400 GB. Together, they connected the hard drive to the computer, entered Disk Management and saw that there were four partitions on the disk and only one of the four was normally deleted. The fact is that this hard disk was previously installed with factory Windows 8.1 with all service partitions. If you click on the first, second and last section with the right mouse button, then of all the options, only "Help" will be offered

Without thinking twice, they decided that if you format the disk (D :) in the "Computer" window, then all partitions will be deleted. Entering the Computer window, they clicked right click mouse on disk (D :) and just formatted it.

Going into disk management again, they saw that all partitions were intact, then they simply deleted the disk (D :). Once again, seeing that nothing happened to the other sections, their patience ran out and they called me.

Friends, many people immediately thought of the hard disk partition manager programs: and, of course, you can use them too, but there is an easier way, the command line!

Launch command line as administrator.

To manage disk space, enter the diskpart command.

We display a list of all disks with the list disk command, press Enter.

A list of all disks connected to the computer comes out. Be careful, you cannot be mistaken here. By the volume, you can guess that Disc 0(111 GB) is solid state drive SSD, and Disk 1 (372 GB), this is our second hard drive, on which we need to delete all partitions.

Select Disk 1 (372 GB) to delete all partitions, enter the select disk 1 command. (Caution! In your case, the number in the command may be different).

We enter the command clean and press Enter, it happens complete removal all partitions on the second hard drive.

Everything is ready, close the command line.

We go into disk management and see that all partitions on the hard drive are deleted.

Before creating a single partition, the disk must be initialized. Right-click on Disk 1 and select Initialize disk.

If you do not know what it is, then select The main boot record MBR and press OK ..

Now we create a simple volume. Right-click on unallocated space and select Create Volume.

Almost all computers that come with operating system Windows 8 have a dedicated system recovery partition consisting of important files needed for a reset or Windows recovery 8 to factory condition. recovery partition typically consumes about 15 GB of disk space. Since most computers that are available today can offer at least 500 GB of disk space, users may not feel the need to free up more disk space. But from users who have purchased a computer with 64 or 128 GB SSD (Solid State Drive), they may want to free up some space by deleting this system recovery partition.

Moment restore partitions consists of recovering images and other important files before deleting the recovery partition, you must first go to recovery partition USB flash drive .After moving recovery partition delete partition recovery... You can then use the new USB disk recovery to restore Windows 8 to factory settings.

Follow the step by step instructions below to move recovery partition to a USB stick and then delete recovery partition in Windows 8.

NOTE: This procedure only works on Windows 8 and doesn't work on Windows 7.

Step 1: Connect a USB drive that has at least 16 GB of disk space (you may need more USB space if recovery partition more than 16 GB) and backup all data to a safe place. This USB stick will be erased.

Step 2: Switch to Start screen, type Create recovery disc change search filter Parameters(see picture), and then press Enter to launch the Restore Disk Wizard. If you see UAC, just click the "Yes" button.

Step 3: After starting the Restore Disk Wizard, check the parameter Copy the PC recovery partition to the recovery drive, and then click Next.

Step 4: Select your USB storage device and click Next.

Step 5: You will see the message “Everything on the disk will be deleted. If you have personal files on disk, make sure you back up your files. ” Since you have already transferred all the data from USB, press the button Create to start transfer recovery partition to the selected USB drive. Depending on the size Windows recovery partition, this process can take several minutes (or hours to complete).

Step 6: When Windows 8 will complete copying recovery partition to the USB stick, you will see the message “You can also delete recovery partition on your PC to free up some disk space ”, and a parameter named Delete recovery partition.

Step 7: Click the button Delete recovery partition to see an error message that says “You can free up some disk space by deleting the system recovery partition, but you won't be able to update or restore your computer again without a recovery disc. ”Since you have already migrated recovery partition to a USB stick, you can safely delete disk recovery partition.

Click the button Delete and recovery partition will be deleted. After the deed is done Windows 8 will show you how much disk space you got by deleting the recovery partition... Good luck!

Deleting not system partition a disk without user intervention is quite a rare occurrence. Of course, the reason for deleting a disk partition (or even several) can be malware, damaged sectors and other hard drive breakdowns, but more often the disappearance of entire partitions of the data disk is the result of user experiments with software, for which such users are not yet ready.

Inside Windows, it is quite difficult to delete the system disk partition, because the operating system is protected from self-destruction. Typically, to cause this kind of consequences, such as deleting a partition from Windows or boot sector(a small partition reserved by the system), you need to experiment with software that runs from bootable media. Or inside another operating system installed, respectively, on a different disk partition. Therefore, most often, non-system disk partitions, on which personal data of users are stored, are mistakenly deleted. In most cases, this data is of much greater value than an operating system, which can be restored to work as a last resort by reinstalling.

How to recover deleted disk partitions and save the data stored on them? Below we will go through this process step by step using free software for Windows - AOMEI Partition Assistant.

AOMEI Partition Assistant has a paid edition that provides additional features on working with the disk space of the computer. But to restore disk partitions, the functionality of the free edition of the Standard Edition will be enough. You can download one from the official website of the developer.

1. In what cases recovery of disk partitions will help, and in what cases it will not

But before proceeding directly to the instructions, a few points to clarify. Below we will consider a way to restore deleted disk partitions - in fact, return them to the state in which they were before deletion. The recovered partitions will have the same size, the same place in the disk partition table, and they will contain the same data as before. To restore disk partitions, a special type of software will be used - the disk space allocation manager, the above-mentioned AOMEI Partition Assistant program. Partition recovery will not help resolve the issue of rescuing data after incorrectly formatting disk partitions or removable drives. For these purposes, it is necessary to resort to the help of a separate type of programs designed for data recovery: Recuva, R-studio and others.

Recovering disk partitions will not help if after deletion the disk space has been reallocated and new partitions have already been created in place of the deleted partitions. In this case, we can only talk about data recovery using the above programs.

And one more nuance: if in the explorer or file manager the disk partition is not visible as disk D, E, F, etc., it may not have been deleted, and its invisibility is due to the absence of a letter. The letters of the disk partitions and computer devices can fly off after a system crash, experiments with Windows settings, unsuccessful rollback to backup, as well as as a result of other interventions in the system. The easiest way to clarify this is in the standard disk management utility. Universal way launch it for everyone Windows versions- using the system service "Run" (key + R). Command to enter:

If a letter has flown, the non-system partition will be marked as good. And you can assign a letter to it using the appropriate command in the context menu.

The picture with a deleted partition (or several partitions) will be different: a certain part of the disk space will be marked with the inscription "Not allocated".

This is the diagnosis for applying the instructions for recovering disk partitions, which is given below.

2. Recovering non-system disk partitions

In the window of the AOMEI Partition Assistant after its launch, we will see the same picture as in the Windows Disk Management utility - deleted partition in the table above and in the visual below will be marked as unallocated space.

We launch the partition recovery wizard - either in the "Wizard" menu at the top, or on the side panel of the program interface.

At the first stage of the wizard, select the desired HDD, if there are several of them connected to the computer, and on the disk itself, click on the same unallocated (unallocated) space that remains after deleting the disk partition. Click "Next".

Next, we will see a window for selecting the type of search for deleted partitions. The selection scheme is simple: first, we use a quick search, and if in the process the deleted partitions are not found, it will only be necessary to repeat the procedure with the choice of a full search. Click "Next".

The section is found, mark it with a tick and press the "Go" button.

End of operation.

The deleted disk partition has been recovered. The folders and files stored on it were not damaged.

If several disk partitions have been deleted, after the search, you must check the boxes on all detected partitions and restore them.

3. Restore Windows system partitions

Restoring mistakenly deleted Windows system partitions will restore the operating system to bootability. But the operation to restore the C drive and the boot sector, compared to restoring non-system disk partitions, is more difficult because you have to work with bootable media. And to create one, you need a workable computer device. On such a computer, you need to install AOMEI Partition Assistant and create an emergency Live disk using the program. On the side panel of the program window, launch the Bootable CD Creation Wizard. At the first step of the wizard, select the "Create a simple Windows PE" option (since the second option requires fiddling with additional AOMEI software). Click "Next".

We boot the computer from a disk or flash drive. In the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, in our case, we see that both system partitions - both the C drive and the 500 MB boot sector - have merged into a single unallocated space. To restore Windows, we follow the same path as for saving non-system disk partitions described in the previous paragraph of the article. We launch the partition recovery wizard.

We click on the unallocated space.

We choose fast search. If it does not help, we repeat the operation with the choice of the full search.

We mark the sections found by the program. We press "Go".

System partitions have been restored.

Have a great day!

Today we will talk about deleting non-system partitions. I will say that deleting a section as a whole is most often associated with the participation of the user himself. Of course, the partition can be damaged by virus programs or normal damage. hard disk but as I said, common reason such troubles is precisely the user. Moreover, he could experiment with any software with which he was not ready to work and did a bunch of bad things.

The most interesting thing is that of Windows systems deleting a partition is not so easy, because it is protected from self-destruction. To delete a partition, system or non-system, you have to try terribly. The user may have known what he was doing, but due to carelessness he deleted the wrong section. What if it had important data on it? That's right, continue to be more careful.

Today we will deal with fixing such problems. How to recover deleted partitions? Quite simply, we'll use a free software called.

Like any other similar program, AOMEI Partition Assistant has and paid version, which gives additional opportunities, fortunately, we will have enough to restore partitions and free version... You can download it from the official website.

When can recovery help and when not?

Before you get started, you need to clarify a couple of points that are very important. Yes, we will restore deleted partitions, moreover, all the data that was on them will remain intact, they will have the same volume and the same place in the partition table. If you have accidentally formatted the partition, then using AOMEI Partition Assistant, you will not be able to recover the lost data. Fortunately, to do it, you can use good utilities, such as R-studio, Disk Drill and many others.

If, when deleting a partition, the disk space was redistributed, and new ones were created in place of the partitions that were deleted, then it is also a moot point. Recovery can be carried out using the same programs that I indicated just above.

It so happens that the section is not actually deleted, but a letter is simply not assigned to it, the letter of the section can fly off due to a failure in the system or thanks, again, to the user. To understand whether the section is really not deleted, but simply does not have a letter, you need to go to the disk management utility. To do this, we press the keys Win + R and in the "Run" window that opens, enter the command:

The section that does not have a letter will be OK, but will be shaded. You need to right-click on it and select the item "Change drive letter or drive path".

If the section is deleted, then it will be written "Not allocated", and the top strip will not be blue, but black.

Now, if you understand that your partition has been deleted, let's start restoring it.

How do I recover a deleted partition?

Once downloaded and installed AOMEI program Partition Assistant, launch it and get to work. In the program window, the deleted partition will be defined as "Unoccupied" space.

Click on the item in the top menu "Master" and select the item "Partition Recovery Wizard"... The same is in the left panel of the program.

At this stage, you need to select the desired hard disk, if there are several of them installed, then we must click on the unallocated space and click "Further".

Here we must first choose « Quick search» , if the process does not find the deleted partitions, then use "Full search".

As soon as the deleted section is found, put a tick in front of it and click on the button "Go".

The end of the process will look like this:

Now the deleted partition has been recovered, and the data that has not been damaged on it has been recovered.

If during the search several deleted partitions were found, then you just need to select all the items with a checkmark.

How do I restore a system partition?

This option is complicated by the fact that when restoring system partitions, for example, a partition with an operating system, we will use bootable media. To create such a media, you will need to have a working system, so we will install the AOMEI Partition Assistant program on it and use it to create a bootable Live disk.

In the left panel of the program, we have to click "Make a bootable CD master" and in the window that opens, select the item "Create a simple Windows PE"... The second option also takes place, but there is a lot of fiddling with additional software. So, we chose the first item and clicked "Further".

Now we need to select the type of bootable media: optical disc, flash drive or image. I will choose 3 option, you can either.

Launch Partition Recovery Wizard and select unallocated space. Click on next.

First we choose "Quick search", and if he did not give results, then "Full search".

Mark the found sections with checkmarks and click "Go".

That's all, now you can restart your computer and boot from your hard drive, Windows should boot as usual.

After Windows installations 10, the user may notice a small hidden partition (from 300 to 450 MB). It contains the "Recovery" folder, and it contains the "WindowsRE" directory with a WIM image (Winre.wim), which contains the system recovery tools. The same tools are available on the installation media. Therefore, users are often interested in how to remove the recovery partition on a hard drive with Windows 10, attaching it to the general volume. Let's take a closer look at this process.

Step-by-step instructions for deleting Windows 10 recovery partition

If you click "Start", "Settings", select the "Update and Security" section, and then "Recovery", "Special boot options" and click "Restart now", the system will restart the computer and you will be taken to the operating system setup environment.

In this environment, you can choose to restore the system, roll back to an earlier state, run various settings using the command line.

Despite the usefulness of all these tools, they are on installation disk or a USB flash drive. Therefore, if you are sure that rollback windows 10 and fixing errors, you will perform using the installation media, the recovery partition can be deleted. This can be done as follows:

• Create bootable media of the same version and bitness Windows 10 that you have installed (if there is no previously created installation flash drive or disk).
• Then we boot from this flash drive. The operating system installation window will appear. Press the key combination "Shift + F10". The command line will appear.

• Further, in order, we introduce the following tasks.

1. Diskpart;
2. lis dis (a list of all installed disks will appear);
3. sel dis 0 (select a drive with installed Windows 10);
4. lis par (command to view disk partitions).

1. The following commands remove the three hidden Windows partition 10:

• Recovery in 450 MB;
• System partition 100 MB or (EFI);
• MSR of 128 MB. This is the section you need to GPT markup(it is not visible in disk management).

1. We leave only the partition with the installed operating system. To delete these three sections, enter the following commands in order:

• sel par 1 (first section);
• del par override (delete the first section);
• sel par 2 (second section);
• del par override (delete the second section);
• sel par 3 (third section);
• del par override (remove the third section).

1. At the next stage, enter create par efi size = 100 to create an encrypted (EFI) system partition of 100 MB.
2. Next, enter format fs = FAT3 (to format and create a partition in FAT32).
3. Now we create a 128 MB partition, entered the command create par msr size = 128.
4. Click lis vol. A list of disk partitions appears. We see that the partition with Windows 10 is assigned a drive letter (C :).

IMPORTANT! In your case, there may be a different letter.

1. Enter exit to exit diskpart.
2. bcdboot C: \ Windows, where C is the letter of the partition with the installed operating system.
3. Exit.

After completing these operations, it is worth restarting the computer. Now go to "Disk Management".

V this instrument we look that the deletion was successful and freed space appeared. It needs to be attached to local disk C. For this purpose, we use the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition program.

• We launch the program. Select the disk to which we want to attach free space. In the menu on the left, select "Resize / Move".

• Check the box "I need to move this section" and drag the slider to the limit to give all the space to the C drive.

IMPORTANT! We make sure that there are zeros in the "Unoccupied space" section.

• Click "OK" and click "Apply".

• Next, a window will open. We click "Go".

• The computer monitor will blink as the program enters a special boot mode. A window will appear. We click "Yes".

• The system will reboot. The freed space will be attached on a black background.

The recovery partition on Windows has been removed and joined to the shared space.

To learn how to delete the recovery partition in Windows 10, see the video: