Windows Recovery Partition
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Last edited on 30 December 2021, at 01:52.
Windows 10 will set up a recovery partition which is used when in booting in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). When imaging your OS disk to another one, this recovery partition may prevent the main OS partition from expanding without first deleting this partition.
Delete the Windows recovery partition[edit | edit source]
Open command prompt as an administrator, then follow the following:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-3DO6UEH
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 476 GB 365 GB
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 549 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 110 GB 550 MB
Partition 3 Recovery 527 MB 111 GB
DISKPART> select partition 3
Partition 3 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> delete partition
Virtual Disk Service error:
Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set.
DISKPART> delete partition override
DiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition.
DISKPART> exit
Leaving DiskPart...