What is causing the ‘Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set’ error?
We investigated this particular issue by looking at various user reports and the solutions that they used to take care of the issue. Most likely, the error message gets thrown by DiskPart because you are trying to delete a hidden or system protected partition using the “delete volume” command. Doing this will likely trigger the ‘Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set‘ error because the DiskPart utility requires a different parameter in order to remove hidden or system protected partitions. If you’re struggling to resolve the same error message, the method below will allow you to resolve the issue by using a different parameter that will signal Windows that you know what you’re doing.
Resolving the Error Using the override parameter
Most likely, you are seeing this error as a warning that you need to be extra sure that you wish to delete the recovery partition. It’s somewhat confusing because the parameter is not indicated in the Help Delete Partition section of DiskPart. Keep in mind that normally, Diskpart will only enable you to delete known data partitions. To delete any known data partition (including recovery partitions), you’ll need to use the override parameter. But setting the documentation aside, you will be able to resolve the issue by using the override parameter. Here’s a quick guide on how to do this:
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