Windows delete recovery partition

Windows delete recovery partition

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At present, whether it is Windows 10 or Windows 11, after the installation is complete, there will be a recovery partition behind the C drive. In the virtual machine scenario, when the hard disk needs to be expanded, this recovery partition will make the partitions discontinuous, making it impossible to directly restore the partition. The capacity is expanded to the C drive, so it is necessary to delete this partition before expanding the capacity.

what is recovery partition

After checking some information, in a word, it is a Windows PE, which can be replaced by a Windows boot image.

And after consulting the Microsoft community , I came to the conclusion: "deleting this partition will have no effect".

how to delete

Many small partners enter the disk management that comes with the system and find that the recovery partition is protected, and there is no way to delete it directly in the form of GUI.

After consulting the information, you can successfully delete this partition according to this article , the steps are as follows:

1. Right-click on the Start menu and select Windows Powershell (Admin)
2. type diskpart, then typelist disk
3. Enter select disk #( #is the number of the hard disk where the recovery partition is located)
4. enterlist partition
5. Enter select partition #( #is the number of the partition where the recovery partition resides)
6. enterdelete partition override

After performing the above steps, return to Disk Management , and you will find that the recovery partition has been successfully deleted.