How to delete the Recovery Partition in Windows 10

 Source : https://superuser.com/questions/1023765/how-to-delete-the-recovery-partition-in-windows-10

https://www.diskinternals.com/partition-recovery/recovery-partition-and-how-to-delete-it/

A recovery partition is a partition on the disk that helps to restore the factory settings of the OS (operating system) if there is some kind of system failure. This partition has no drive letter, and you can use only Help in Disk Management.

As mentioned above, when a system is updated, a new recovery partition is created. This means the old recovery partition will be outdated. That means, that you better keep the current one and delete the old recovery partition.

But which one is old and which one is current, you may ask?

recovery partition in cmd

For that, you will need to use the command line: right-click Start and select "Command Prompt (administrator)". In the window titled "cmd.exe", type the following command: "reagentc / info" and press Enter. In the Windows RE location line, you will get something like: "...\device\harddisk1\partition2\..." Now you need to recheck it with Diskpart; and with that tool, you can also delete it.

To erase the disk recovery partition, you can use the built-in utility Diskpart.

So, in the same Command Prompt window enter "diskpart". Then type "list disk":

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk 4

Disk 4 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            223 GB  1024 KB
  Partition 3    Recovery           450 MB   223 GB

DISKPART> select partition 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> delete partition override

DiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            223 GB  1024 KB