Delete EFI partition in Windows 7

Delete EFI partition in Windows 7

In case you bought a drive from Apple Store, but later you decided to use it on a PC instead. In the  Windows disk management tool notice listed a EFI partition on the disk but wouldn’t allow you to remove it. Here’s how to delete it:

Previously Apple formatted drive in Windows 7 you are unable to remove the EFI System partition/volume.

[step 1] With the USB drive connected, open a command prompt and Run as administrator.

[step 2] Start the disk partition utility by typing diskpart.

[step 3] Type list disk to see all of your connected disks (be sure you’re working on the right disk, if you select the wrong disk you’ll be sorry – see disclaimer). To select a disk type select disk # where # is the disk number you want to delete the EFI partition from.

[step 4] Type list partition ... Then type select partition # where # is the number of the partition you want to delete.

[step 5] Type delete partition override