how to remove unwanted partition

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I accidentally created a drive (E;) while fooling with norton system works (disk doctor), the drive is only 46mb in size. When I decided to restore to an earlier time, a message came up that there was not enough disk space available, there are 17 gig of free space on my (C;) drive. I think this small drive (E;) is what is causing the problem but I am unsure how to get rid of it
when I open (E;) drive there is only one folder in it labeled TEST tried to delete it and a message said that it was to big for the trash bin and did I want to permanetly delete it, becuase I wasn't sure, and since it would be gone for good I didn't do it, so I went to my computer and right clicked the (E;) drive and selected delete and was told that this drive was being used and couldn't be deleted so I canceled that window and under it was another window asking if I wanted windows to forcibly remove it and that if I did it could effect some application etc..
If I could remove this drive I think system restore would work and if it can't be removed how can I increase it's size to at least 200mb as this is what windows lists as the minimum disk space that must be avalable in order to restore to an earlier time. can anyone help me with this problem?
 
try going to start, run, type in( fdisk) look for e: and delete partition. but please be careful, if you don't know what you are doing it can mess things up.(not assuming you don't:)
 
No, I don't know to much, just enough to be dangerous, I am still a novice. Start>Run>type Fdisk>Local drive E;>Delete, sounds easy enough. Then I read "be careful or you could really mess things up" please explain what to be careful of
 
Not as simple as I thought, went to start>run>typed fdisk "windows cannot find fdisk. Make sure you typed the name correctly then try again" ???????????
 
pat said:
No, I don't know to much, just enough to be dangerous, I am still a
novice. Start>Run>type Fdisk>Local drive E;>Delete, sounds easy
enough. Then I read "be careful or you could really mess things up"
please explain what to be careful of
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The command under Windows XP is called "diskpart", not "fdisk", which is a
Windows 9x command.
In Start|Run, enter "cmd", then at the Command prompt enter the text
"diskpart" (without the quotes) and hit Enter. The advice you read was
very good and definitely to the point. You CAN really mess up your HD if
you don't know what you are doing. Do "?" or "help" at the diskpart prompt
for a list of commands you can use. Windows XP Help and Support says that
this command is only available from the Recovery Console. But if that is
so, why is it available from the Command Prompt.

Now that that is said, I refer you to "Help and Support" with "disk
management" in the search line
 
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