How Do You Remove An NTFS Partition?
In this tutorial, you will learn how to delete an NTFS partition from a PC running Windows XP. A partition is a contiguous region of a hard disk. For instance, assume you have a 500 GB hard drive. The PC allows you to use that space as one 500 GB chunk, two 250 GB chunks or to divide it into as many “slices” (partitions) as you wish, provided they do not exceed 500 GB. However you decide to divvy up the pieces, a drive in a properly functioning PC will have at least one partition that represents the usable storage space. Operating Systems such as Linux or Microsoft Windows XP use partitions to store files and other system data that are required to operate your computer. Users familiar with DOS or Windows will recognize terminology such as “C:”, “F:”, or “C Drive”. These are symbolic names that Windows uses to represent disk partitions. Before a partition can be used to store files, it must be configured (“formatted”) to use a specific file system that governs the internal details about
