How to delete a recovery partition to expand your storage
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2020
- Professor Robert McMillen shows you how to delete a recovery partition to extend your hard drive in Windows 10, Server 2012, 2016, and 2019. This allows you to expand your drive if you have unused space but unable to do so.
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2 years later and still saving people. Thank you! Can finally convert to GPT and enable SAM
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Same boat did you create recovery partition later after converting gpt
Even 2 years later this video is extremely helpful and exactly what I needed. I appreciate you being straightforward with this walkthrough and I look forward to browsing the rest of your channel. Thank you!
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Exactly what I needed and straight to the point, no BS. You sir did a fine job with this tutorial.
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Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling because I was unaware of the "delete partition override" command and could not get rid of a few partitions. Great video! Concise, great audio, no annoying background music, easy English for an American to understand. 👍
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Erik Rogel : my thoughts exactly. I have just watched about 12 different videos that failed to concisely explain this process. Prof McMillen's explanation finally got it thru my thick skull. Thumbs up!
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Thanks you so much. Your explanation was simple and easy to understand with no nonsense talk. The video and audio was clear. 🙂🙏👍
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This is the ONLY video that helped me troubleshoot "deleting extra partitions" and getting access to "extend volume" to get all my space back on one drive finally. Can't thank you enough!!!
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You absolute STAR! Honestly. So simple. No technical support could help, but you did it instantly! SO GRATEFUL :)
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Thanks!!!! Went to computer management and was surprised I wasnt able to control everything from that. Your tutorial is the best!
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When you can't find any ways, this video literally shows you ways from there. Thanx man!
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Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. This information was so hard to find on the rest of the internet.
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You are so helpful, i've literally gone to 100 different videos and websites trying to figure out how to do this, youre the best dude!!!
You're very welcome!
Very simple and understandable for an old semi Geek who does not work in CMD PROMPT too often. Thank you was able to remove Factory Installed partitions that were useless because they had Windows 10 on it and was using 18GB of space between them. I already upgraded to Windows 11 and will now create a recovery Image to use with my Recovery USB Drive. I now have full access to my entire C Drive and there is only the small 250MB UEFI recovery partition created by Windows 11 on it.
Glad you got the extra space and thanks for watching.
Straight to the point. Exactly what I needed. Thank you sir.
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Exactly what I needed and straight to the point. all killer no filler. thanks Tech Pub, upvoted and subscribed!!! thanks!
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My god you made it so simple to understand an d execute. I was afraid my problem was too specific to find a solution for but here your video was. Thank you so much for saving me so much trouble.
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This video is very easy to follow. No intro, no music, no worries.
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This helped me a lot! Was running into an issue trying to convert my drive and couldn't delete the partitions at first. Thank you!
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Very nice and easy to follow guide. Sorted out a drive that had many recovery partitions.
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Thank you! I was trying to set up my new SSD, and after cloning it I ran into some issues with unallocated space. This fixed it! Thanks again!
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I love how straight to the point you give the tutorial is
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i dont know if you still read the comment but i want to let you know that your video is a lifesaver for me today. I also learn a new thing too, kudos to you my dude.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Works on windows 11 too for people who need to know!
Thanks man, very useful, straight forward and informative!
Great to hear!
Thank you so much !!! just cloned my drive from my old PC onto new PC ( OS and some programs ) only when i looked i was only seeing 465gb instead of 931 usable, found the problem, couldn't fix it because couldn't extent the drive due to recovery partition being in between.
Found your video, watched it, wrote down command prompts and it worked perfectly !
Now i consolidated everything and drive is not split up.
Glad it helped and thanks for watching.
@@techpub Welcome ! I Subscribed just for that, I would Subscribe a 2nd time if possible just for the fact i saw in the comments you still reply to people on a 3 year old video 👍👍.
You saved me time, energy and money.
It's amazing how much you forget when you don't use it. Thanks for the refresher.
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Thank you so much. I was running a VM and for some reason it was expanding the size of the recovery partition. This helped me out a lot!
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Mate, thank you so much! This was perfect and so concise.
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Thank you sooo much...you have explained everything well and it worked well for me...I was trying to extend my c drive for so long...trying to remove this recovery partition all the way...and now I did it... thanks a ton..
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Thanks sir! Your video was very helpful. Simple and clear instructions.
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Absolutely excellent video I really needed this to reuse my old HDD and add new HDD to my new PC so useful thank you.
Much love from the UK.
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Thank you so much sir, I searched for 3 hours and your video solved it in 2 minutes.
You are most welcome
Good lord, trying to do clean wipe of my drive so I can do a 100% fresh install of windows was beyond frustrating. Thank you so much for this no nonsense tutorial.
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Thanks for not spending 5 minutes waffling or trying to talk me out of it! Cheers dude!
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Thank you SO MUCH! It took me over 1 hour to find your video and all the other RUclipsrs or website admins just recommended their own stupid software (which didn't even help me in most cases!)... After I watched your video I finally deleted the Healthy Recovery Partition and now I have about 200 GB of space more on my C drive!
That's great! Thanks for watching.
thanks a ton. I have a 10TB external drive that I had cloned my 1TB boot drive too. I decided I didn't want it on there anymore and was able to delete the 1TB partition but that stupid recovery partition was in between that partition and the other 9TB partition and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to extend it so they would join. By following your tutorial it did the trick now i have my full 10TB for storage instead of a 1TB and 9TB, lol.
Glad it helped!
Thank you kindly for this video tutorial 😊 The video was very helpful and you walking us through it was so easy to understand. ❤
Thanks for watching and glad to hear it helped.
This helped me so much after struggling to delete recovery, thanks!
Great!
I wish I had found this video a couple of days ago. shit, everything I've read and tried.. my head hurts. Y are MVP, hero and savior. 5/5 for this video.
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the only video that is concise and works!
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The best explanation in short time👍
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Thank you very much... I just upgraded a 512 ssd to a 1TB ssd; after the installation and the the system image install; all was fine, but the new space was not available from the drive, all I found online was cloning and cloning software for the fix; it took awhile,but I was more then pleased to find your; instruction. Be-Well, L.A.Cal-
Excellent!
Lovely! At last there is a way to get rid of unwanted partions!
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thanks for the concise walkthrough. appreciate it.
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Thank you so much. I am having a hell of a time trying to clone my SATA M.2 SSD to my new NVMe drive. I can get it to clone using Macrium Reflect, but my computer won't boot from that drive. Any suggestions?
You may want to try Acronis.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. It worked perfect. Thank You !!
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Brilliant! Exactly the annoying problem I was trying to fix. Thanks.
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Thank you Robert you made ti so easy. You are a good techer.
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Fantastic! Thank you so much for this. Exactly what I needed!
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Thank you Sir, straight to the point was great.
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Straight to the point, love it.
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thank you so much Sir! this really helps me T-T. i've been searching ways to extend my storage for a week now but none really helps me.
again THANK YOU SIR!
You're very welcome!
Thank so much! easy to follow and did it in just a whim.
Glad it could help and thanks for watching.
THANK YOU! I recently bought a new laptop and it had a M.2 256GB SSD(which is practically 238GB usable) and it had four chunks of healthy recovery partitions (14GB, 1.38GB, 990MB) which didn't seem to be delete-able. Luckily i found your video and it saved my life!!!! i hope deleting this partitions wont cause any harm? THANKS!!!
Excellent! No harm should come to your computer.
Excellent tutorial! Thanks for uploading!
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching.
I know this might be a stupid question, but as I am not tech savvy , I was wondering, I have a 244 MB primary partition and a 223 GB primary partition. I checked and all I have on the 244 is 33 MB used the rest is free. My 223 Gb is where everything is stored. Can I delete the 244 mb and merge it with the main?
Yes, but always do a full backup prior to doing so.
Finally I managed to delete unwanted partition, TQ so much
Awesome!
Great job, nice video. Thanks!
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Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much!
You're very welcome!
SR, You have all of my respect! thank you !
You are very welcome
This is my first comment ever and all i can say is you saved me hours of work, thank you
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Does this work on a dell i have 5 partitions on my C drive, 500 MB EFI system partition, OS (C) 917.8 9GB, 604 MB recovery partition, 11.35 GB recovery partition, 1.07 MB recovery partition. One of the recovery is the factory dell if I reset pc back to factory. I not need it as its old. One of my other Win 10 machine has a System Reserved 549 MB but Dell not have that or my HP.
Just make sure you have a good backup first but it should work fine.
Thank you for the video, just what I needed after removing dual boot Linux from my machine!
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what can i do if C: is in the middle? between 2 other partitions.. can i do the same process without lose data or the partition get formatted
Yes as long as you only delete the non C or data partitions.
Wow, thanks brother, very clear tutorial ❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you so much sir with lots of love from India. You have help me a lot 🙏🙏🙏
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Thanks bro, you're an absolute legend.
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That was exactly what i was looking for thank you so much!
Glad to help out.
Excellent video by a professional. When you are not familiar with all the commands and back doors you have to watch several times. I did manage to remove the Partition restore in my (C) drive and gained the whole 2 TB back. I finished by setting a restore point with a highlighted Drive (C) and create a restore by clicking. Only problem is I don't see the name on any of the drives now even though I received a success restore. I named it as you did with restore plus a date but it does not show up anywhere as it did before deleting it. Is that because it is at the end of the disk now out of sight?
Thanks for watching. It will only show up in Computer Management under disk storage as it is now a hidden partition.
Thank you Soo much finally done it after searching the solution for 2 hours❤❤
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This was ultra helpful and clear!!
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Thanks it worked perfectly and solved the problem. Big thumps up
You're welcome!
Thanks a lot. Is there any disadvantage of deleting the recovery partition?
I was worried about that but I haven't found any issues.
Thank you so much, have been trying for days to fix my C drive, so I can double boot to run some older programs that will not run in Windows 10
You might also mention to run cmd as administrator
Glad it helped! and good tip.
sooo helpful and clear! thank you so so much!
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This was so much helpful ✨ and we'll explained easy clear
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THANKU SO MUCH I WAS SUFFERING WITH THIS FROM MONTHS GOD BLESS YOU LOVE FROM INDIA
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Outstanding. Thanks! Why Microsoft won't allow us to simply do this through the Disk Management interface is baffling.
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Thank you so much, exactly what i was looking for😉
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Easy and works as explained. Thank you.
Glad it helped Marius!
Thank you so much. This really helped.
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Thank you so much. You are the best!!
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Really helpful! Thank you so much!
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Thank you. Helped me fix the problem
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Finally! Really thank you
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thank you... very easy and simple
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Thanks. This worked like a charm
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Thank you, your video helped me.🔥
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Hi. This video helped me clean up the partitions, but I can't expand the primary partition the way you did. My unallocated space partition is located to the left of the primary one and when I try to expand, it gives me a warning message saying the operation will convert those basic disks to dynamic ones which doesn't sound good. What should I do in this situation?
I would convert to dynamic. It won't hurt anything.
@@techpub It says if I do it, I won't be able to run any versions of Windows from that disk that are already installed on it.
thanks, clear and precise.
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That was really helpful thank you.
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Thank you very much. You wouldn't believe how many help articles there are out there telling you to go buy 3rd party software for this nonsense. That "override" part is the key element that no one tells you about.
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Thank you so much. It really worked for me!
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good ... easy & detailed thanks
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Great tutorial!
Thank you!
You Sir are a Genius! Thank You!
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this was perfect. much appreciated!
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Thanks it worked. Perfect guide !!!
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@@techpub please can we restore the partition disk after deleting it ? And I want to know if deleting it will cause problem after ?
I wished it didn't take me hours to find this video. Just what I needed
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Why when I want to extend "C" drive gives me a sound on my harddisk and error in Disk0?
Are there arny other partitions on the drive besides C after removing the recovery partitions?
Big Thanks sir
You save me alots
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