Solved Deleting partion

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the wall

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I have a Lenovo G50 running Win 10 and i had a SSD installed buy a third party at the time i needed XP to be installed in a partion and they used Oracle Virtual Box which was next to usless so now i want to delete OVB and XP and regain the space used buy it, how do i do this.
 
Manage to delete VM then deleted partiton but when i clicked on C volume Extend Volume is greyed out so i still have an unallocated volume on the disk is it possible to extend C volume with the unallocated volume.
As the unallocated volume is only 50gb out off 500gb i'm not to bothered about it(but i know it's there :unsure: ), but as it is now, is the unallocated volume un reachable if the C volume fills up.
 
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If the one next to it was a storage drive and not a recovery partition that probably has certain configurations to that is changed may crash your system.

Others may have ideas that mat help.
@Bruce @phillpower2

Other wise just partition it as a separate drive and use it for storage.
 
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Ok Rustys as you are a man i the know how do i reinstall Windows as there is nothing on here worth saving.
 
as Rusty has said, you could either just leave it but having those 56GB unused would be a waste, of format that partition and have it as E:\ drive, or you could reload Windows and have it clean all the partitions up for you.

get the Windows Media Creation Tool and use it to download the latest Windows 10 image, then create a bootable USB drive to install it off.
during the install it'll bring up a list of current partitions, delete them all and it'll create what it needs.
when it asks to enter the Product Key, click "I don't have one" and it'll happily continue and auto-activate when it detects you are online.

double check that there aren't files you may want to backup first; docs, pics, bookmarks, accounting data, password lists, etc. also make a list of the software you have installed so you know what to get when you come out the other side.

happy hunting. :)
 
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Hi Rustys thakyou for all your help being a Mac sevant this was all alien to me so i was very gratful for yours and Bruce's help, i deleted VW and have used the Windows Media Creation Tool to make an ISO of Win 10 for use later and i have upgraded the ram and the machine is running alot faster and cleaner, i know this machine has it's limits and is of low spec but it's doing what i want it to do.

Cheers (y)
 
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