How to Delete ALL partitions on Thinkpad X120e?

[ibodnano]

How do I delete all visible and hidden partitions (including Recovery partition)? use diskpart? if yes what are the command lines?

Does X120e have only one logical drive(C: drive) out of the box?

I want only one logical drive C: without any partitions( including Recovery partitions)

thanks you

[ausmike]

FORMAT C:

Format the whole drive !! at BOOT, or you cna use TvT rescue&recovery to format the drive( at boot stage) than kill rest of process...... you dont need to go thru rest of stages.
(thats what normally I do - easy and fast)

AS a Suggestion - I would take (make) a set of RECOVERY DISK from 'factory' as you wont be able to do that after formating.

[Neil]

ibodnano, welcome to the forum...To delete all partitions, you will need to boot something like diskpart, gparted, fdisk or any other partition manager you choose, without mounting the HDD. Since the X120e doesn't have an optical drive, you will need to create a bootable USB flash drive with the partition manager on it.

After you have deleted all the existing partitions, you will need to create the new single partition that you want, format it, then install your new OS. Or, if you want to use the factory installed OS, I would recommend making an image of the factory install. Then, after you delete all partitions, restore the factory image to the newly created single partition.

[ibodnano]

ibodnano, welcome to the forum...To delete all partitions, you will need to boot something like diskpart, gparted, fdisk or any other partition manager you choose, without mounting the HDD. Since the X120e doesn't have an optical drive, you will need to create a bootable USB flash drive with the partition manager on it.

After you have deleted all the existing partitions, you will need to create the new single partition that you want, format it, then install your new OS. Or, if you want to use the factory installed OS, I would recommend making an image of the factory install. Then, after you delete all partitions, restore the factory image to the newly created single partition.

thanks for the good advice.
my understanding is as folllowing

type diskpart in run windows
list disk
select disk
list partition
select partition
delete partition override
(does these commands delete all partitions and create a new single partition)
and then clean install windows( format can be done while doing clean install windows)

correct me if i was wrong, thanks

[Neil]

type diskpart in run windows

Not sure what you are saying here... but you cannot delete the partition containing Windows, while Windows is running. You want to perform these operations by booting some media other than you hard drive. Either USB optical drive, or USB flash drive or some such thing, so you can manipulate the unmounted hard drive.

Do you really want to delete ALL your existing partitions? Or, do just want to remove the service partition and expand the Windows partition to fill the entire drive?