How to Delete the Undeletable using Diskpart (Disk Partition) in Windows 10

In this video, I show you how to use a built-in Windows utility called Diskpart to delete protected partitions on a hard disk - partitions that cannot be deleted from Windows' own Disk Management utility. I use Windows 10 in this video, but Diskpart has been available in previous versions as well. If you have multiple disks in your computer, make absolutely certain that you select the correct disk before you start deleting partitions!
If you simply want to clear the entire disk at once (including the partition style of GPT/MBR), you can use the command "clean" at the 2:27 mark. Otherwise, follow the video to delete individual partitions.
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Sadly after doing everything exactly as in the video after initialization of the drive all the partitions are back... I've tried to delete these partitions (as they're from a broken OS) and copy a healthy OS on this drive. Macrium gave me "Error 8"

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It says diskpart cannot delete volumes on removable media

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[@davidg4512]

You can skip almost all of that and just do "select disk 0" (or whichever number you have), then execute "clean".

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Yes, you can certainly do that to clear the entire disk (which is the use case in the video). I'll add it to the description - thanks.

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Hi, i tried to delete or format the hard drive but i cant , command delete part override, virtual disk service error: Delete operations on current boot volume, system, paging file, crash dump, or hibernation are not allowed, its a 1 tb hard drive of a xbox one x, please help!!! (i speak spanish, sorry for my bad english)

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There may be some dependency on the currently running Windows system, whether it's an EFI partition or it contains a pagefile. If it's a pagefile, you can remove it by going to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Advanced Tab -> Settings button under Performance -> Advanced Tab -> Change button. If it's latching onto the currently-booted EFI partition, you may need to physically remove the hard drive and attach it to another computer, and run diskpart from there.

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