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Note the number of the disk which has the protected partition(s) to be removed. The standard procedure does not work for Windows Recovery partitions or any other protected system partitions. To override this protection and forcefully delete them just follow these steps below ( Caution, heed warning at the end of these steps):

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The standard procedure for deleting a partition on a Windows 10 computer are as follows: