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Creating a new partition on the USB stick
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Plug in the Tails USB stick that you want to uninstall.
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Start on Windows.
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Erasing Tails from the USB stick
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[[!toc startlevel=2]]
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[[!meta title="Uninstalling Tails using Windows"]]
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Your new volume appears in the left sidebar of the *File Explorer*.
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Plug back the USB stick.
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Select the **Start** [[!img lib/start.png alt="" class="symbolic" link="no"]] button and open the *File Explorer* app.
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Close the *Settings* app.
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In the **New Volume** dialog, enter a label of your choice and select **Format**.
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Select the **Create Volume** button for the USB stick and choose **Create Simple Volume**.
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In the properties of the USB stick, select **Convert to MBR**.
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Select the **Properties** button corresponding to the USB stick.
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The USB stick now has no volumes and is entirely unallocated.
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In the properties of the **(No label)** volume, select **Delete**.
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Select the **Properties** button corresponding to the **(No label)** volume.
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This volume corresponds to the Tails Persistent Storage on the USB stick.
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If there is a [[Persistent Storage|doc/persistent_storage]] on the USB stick, a volume called **(No label)** also appears on the USB stick.
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