This means the old recovery partition will be outdated and can therefore be deleted to free up some disk space. You can use diskpart.exe to delete recovery partition.Īs mentioned above, when a system is updated, a new recovery partition is created. You cannot delete a recovery partition with Windows Disk Management because it contains vital system files.
Also, if you right click these partitions, you only have the ‘Help’ option unlike other partitions with more options like ‘Open’, ‘Shrink Volume’, ‘Extend Volume’ and others. When you check Disk Management, Recovery partitions are labeled “Healthy (Recovery Partition)” and have no letters. This is why you may find many Recovery partitions Recovery Partitions in Windows Disk Management. This partition is also called the OEM section.Įvery time when you upgrade Windows to the next version, the upgrade program will create a recovery partition if it detects that there is no sufficient space on your recovery partition (GPT disk) or system reserved partition (MBR disk). It occupies a significant amount of disk space since it is this part of the recovery partition that contains the manufacturer settings for application drivers and other things that allow you to restore these default settings. The second is set by the computer manufacturer (like Lenovo, Dell or HP). If it is a GPT disk, then Windows will create a recovery partition and an EFI system partition without drive letter. The first is the one created as a system reserved partition during the installation of Windows operating system on a hard drive disk or if you use Windows Setup to create new partition on an MBR disk. There are two kinds of recovery partitions. Recovery partition is a small partition on your hard drive that can help you restore your Windows Operating system or troubleshoot system issues in case of any system failures. However, Windows does not allow deletion of Recovery Partitions using Disk Management and this can be rather challenging when you want to combine two disk partitions, but they are separated by a recovery partition. However, if you try to delete hidden partitions or system protected partitions like the recovery partition using the "Delete Partition" command in DiskPart, you might get the error message!ģ.Often times you may want to provide more disk space by deleting recovery partitions and allocating that space to other drives. Who does not want to use the disk management to delete. In general, you can use the Diskpart.exe service to delete all known data partitions.
The selected partition has been deleted successfully.Ģ.) What should I watch out for when formatting using cmd.exe and the Diskpart command? Partition 3 is now the selected partition. Here is the output from "DISKPART": Microsoft DiskPart version 1.1
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