[Skullmeat]

Many manufactures place locked partitions on drives that contain recovery utitlites/recovery tools on their drives. However, if you upgrade or use an old drive from a broken machine, these partitions just take up space. If you try to remove these partitions in Disk Management, you will find you cannot remove them. You may be inclined to use a bootable utility like Gpart to remove them, but these partitions can be removed from within windows.

NOTE: Messing with partition tables is dangerous, and involves a risk of damaging your Operating system. Use this guide only if you are certain of what you are doing, and I will not be held responsible if you damage your system.

This guide assumes that you have administrator privileges.

1. Open the start menu and type "diskpart" then hit enter.

Once done a command prompt should open. It should look like this:

DISKPART>_


2. Now type "List disk" in the prompt. You should see a list of drives, by number. (Disk 0, Disk 2, etc)
Note that your primary drive will always be listed as "Disk 0"


3. Select this disk the drive you wish to modify. (In most cases, this will be your primary drive.) Type "select disk 0" Where "disk 0" is the drive you wish to modify.


4. Now type "list partition" into the prompt. This will list the partitions on the currently selected disk.


5. Type "select partition 1" where "partition 1" is the partition you wish to delete.


6. Finally, type "delete partition override" to delete the selected partition. (I dont have a photo for this because I have already removed the OEM partiton on my drive.)

You are done. If all went correctly, diskpart should have successfully removed the partition.

[Skullmeat]

I don't see any of the images...

I'm not sure why this happens. I've stopped using this host tho.

[Kinanizer]

I don't see any of the images...

I'm not sure why this happens. I've stopped using this host tho.

I can see them if I open them in a new tab, but I would suggest using Dropbox.

[Flashwave]

You can also just reinstall a fresh copy of whatever operating system you want to use so all the pre-installed OEM bullshit'll be gone too

[Beelzebub]

This is a nice to know infos that I can use later...I'm always reformatting my computer.

[Skullmeat]

You can also just reinstall a fresh copy of whatever operating system you want to use so all the pre-installed OEM bullshit'll be gone too

Some OEM's Put locked install partitions on their drives. They cant be removed by normal means, and they can be 15GB in size.

[Flashwave]

Some OEM's Put locked install partitions on their drives. They cant be removed by normal means, and they can be 15GB in size.

oh, didn't know that...

[Purphexyon]

Im not completely sure but can't you also remove them through DOS?