wipe-windows-recovery-partition.md (1059B)
1 --- 2 title: "Wiping your Windows recovery partition" 3 date: 2020-08-14T03:42:00 4 tags: [ "Guides", "Snippets", "Software", "Windows" ] 5 --- 6 7 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. 8 9 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: 10 11 ``` 12 diskpart 13 list disk 14 select disk 0 15 list partition 16 select partition 4 17 delete partition override 18 ``` 19 *in the example above, our recovery partition is #4* 20 21 You can now expand your system partition into the empty space. 22 23 Launch `diskmgmt.msc`, right click your system partition, then extend volume.