You can see I’ve been accumulating recovery partitions on this drive! Given that I now have a recovery USB, I can reclaim these bad boys then extend my Primary partition to take up whole disk. Then select the disk you want to deal with… DISKPART> select disk 3Īnd have a look at the paritions on that disk… DISKPART> list partition Then match it up to the commandline output of LIST DISK: DISKPART> list disk With you Command prompt in play, run the DISKPART tool. Right click on that icon and choose “Run as administrator”.

The search will display “Command Prompt”. If you’ve never done that before, click on the Windows menu in the bottom left and type command.

Time to startup a windows commandline as admin. Deleting Protected Paritions with DISKPART See those “Disk Number” labels on the left? Make a mental note.

You can use the Disk Manager that comes up when you right click on “This PC” in explorer and select “Manage…” Make Magic Happen with Commandline ITPRO skillsįinding the Disk Number and Partition Numberįirst, you’ll need find the disk you want to re-partition.Find the disk number and partition you want to delete in Disk Manager.It’s time to roll up the sleeves and unleash some commandline magic. Have you noticed that you can right click on the recovery partition but don’t get any delete options? Just a short post to document some of the things I came across in Windows 10 recently when trying to delete recovery partitions on a freshly migrated SSD boot drive.

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