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Author: breadcat <peter@minskio.co.uk>
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+title: "Wiping your Windows recovery partition"
+date: 2020-08-14T03:42:00
+tags: [ "Guides", "Snippets", "Software", "Windows" ]
+---
+
+I recently replaced my Windows 10 LTSC installation with a stock(er) Windows 10 Pro install, one thing I noticed was an additional partition automatically being created. This partition was helpfully labelled as a recovery partition, and took up 512MB of ever so precious space. I did a bit of research into the matter and found out it wasn't strictly necessary, and personally when it comes to recovering an operating system I have no qualms performing a clean install.
+
+So, to remove this, first launch an admin command prompt (search for `cmd` in your start menu, right click, run as administrator) and run the following:
+
+```
+diskpart
+list disk
+select disk 0
+list partition
+select partition 4
+delete partition override
+```
+*in the example above, our recovery partition is #4*
+
+You can now expand your system partition into the empty space.
+
+Launch `diskmgmt.msc`, right click your system partition, then extend volume.
