Manual Partition Operations
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Remember that each operation described must be executed by selecting
Operations
Commit
or clicking
Commit Pending Operations
(see 2.4.4 «Performing pending
operations»).
4.1.10
Deleting a partition
After a partition is deleted, its space is added to unallocated disk space. It can be used for
a new partition or to resize an existing partition.
If you need to delete a partition:
1.
Select a hard disk and a partition to be deleted.
2.
Select
Disk
Delete
or a similar item in the
Operations
sidebar list, or
click
Delete the selected partition
on the toolbar.
3.
Select the deletion method in the
Delete Partition
window; you can:
(1) just
delete a hard disk partition
(without wiping disk sectors) — set
the switch to
Delete partition.
(2)
delete a hard disk partition
and fully
wipe partition sectors
— set the
switch to
Delete partition and destroy data
.
Delete Partition window
Having set the switch to
Delete partition and destroy data
, enter a
number of passes
for
wiping.
Wiping unallocated disk space means multiple writing of special data to hard disk sectors.
Acronis Disk Director Suite features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During each pass, a
symbol sequence or logical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) is written to unallocated space
sectors. Only logical zeroes are written during the last pass.
The more passes
performed,
the more complete the wiping will be.
Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software — Acronis
Privacy
Expert Suite
, featuring strict algorithms for
guaranteed confidential information wiping and
destruction
.
4.
Confirm partition deletion by clicking
OK
in the
Delete Partition
window.