Can’t Remove Recovery Partition – How to Guide

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My laptop originally came with Win 8.1, the 64Gb drive has a 15Gb recovery partition. I've since upgraded to Windows 10 so I don't think this recovery partition makes much sense – anyway I could do with the space!

This question guided me to the Win10 disk management tool: How to join two primary partitions windows 10

However right-clicking on my D: drive I get no options other than 'help' in the context menu…

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Is there an easy way I can delete D: so I can extend C: onto it? Why is it not being permitted?

As a side question, what are the random unnamed partitions of a few hundred Mb each?

Best Answer

WARNING YOU CAN REALLY MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, IF YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING THIS THEN I SUGGEST YOU DON'T, ALSO I SUGGGEST YOU BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU BEGIN

  1. go to start and type cmd (this is called command prompt)
  2. In command prompt type diskpart and hit enter
  3. type list disk and hit enter
  4. From the list of disks find the one you want to work with (I believe in your case there is only one so it should be easy)
  5. once you find the drive you are looking for type select disk <numberofdrive>
  6. now type list partition and find the partition you want to work with
  7. once you have identified the partition in question type select partition <numberofpartition>
  8. now type delete partition (WARNING ONCE YOU DO THIS THERE IS NO GOING BACK) and hit enter , if it says "cannot delete a protected partition..." use delete partition override (Note you will also have to repeat these steps with the partition in front of the recovery partition if you plan on extending the system volume)
  9. once it is finish type exitand hit enter
  10. go back to diskmanager
  11. right click on the C: volume and click extend
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