Re: Update Recovery Partition Windows 10
Garcia Miller
If you buy a computer with Windows 10 or Windows 8 preinstalled, you will find that there is a recovery partition in Disk Management, with no drive letter and no executable functions except Help (see the image attached below).
Well, what is recovery partition? To put it simple, a recovery partition is a portion of your disk drive that is set aside by the manufacturer to hold an image of your system before it was shipped from the factory. Recovery partition contains the files of system backup image and files that guide system restoration.
However, unlike creating a normal partition, creating a recovery partition is not easy. Usually, when you buy a brand-new computer that has been pre-installed with Windows 10, you can find that recovery partition in Disk Management; but if you reinstall Windows 10, it is likely that no recovery partition can be found.
You may ask: can I delete recovery partition Windows 10? The answer is positive: you can delete recovery partition without affecting the performance of Windows 10, provided that you have made a backup or you are not planning to do factory reset when Windows runs into an error.
Luckily, we have MiniTool Partition Wizard, which can easily and safely remove recovery partition Windows 10/8/7. Here, we recommend using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free edition which is qualified to do this job, you only need to click several buttons to finish.
Within a few seconds, you will have Windows 10 recovery partition deleted. Then you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard to add this unallocated space to any partition so as to extend partition or you may just create new partition on this location.
In fact, Windows also provides you a way to delete recovery partition, that is to use Diskpart.exe to delete partitions from Diskpart command prompt. Please follow these steps to remove Windows 10 recovery partition.
So the bottom line here is: both MiniTool Partition Wizard and Diskpart are useful to delete recovery partition Windows 10. But in my opinion, the former one is easier to operate, and the latter is likely to lead to errors.
Although Diskpart is able to delete recovery partition, without a clear interface to display the details, there are chances that you may delete a wrong partition and the operations are irreversible. For those who are unfamiliar with Diskpart, obviously this is not a good choice.
After knowing how to delete recovery partition using two methods, you might be interested in whether it is possible to restore deleted Windows recovery partition. See the following part to get specific tutorial.
Sometimes, you may regret of deleting recovery partition, for you may need it to restore Windows to factory settings someday. Is it possible to restore recovery partition Windows 10? Yes, and MiniTool Partition Wizard is always the best solution.
Step 2. If you are using the Free Edition, you will see notice saying Free Edition is only capable of scanning for lost partitions. To recover, you need to upgrade software to Pro Edition. If you are already running the Pro Edition, the red notice will not show up. Now to continue, click Next.
Some users are quite indecisive on whether they need to delete the recovery partition or not. If they keep the recovery partition there, it seems that they will never have the chance to make use of it, and the disk space it occupies is wasted; if they just choose to delete it, they feel someday they need this partition to do Windows reset. In such case, it is wise to back up the recovery partition to another location before deleting recovery partition.
Reading here, you can see MiniTool Partition Wizard is really of great help to deal with issues related to recovery partition. In fact, there are more features MiniTool Partition Wizard can offer, such as merge recovery Partition Windows 10 (paid edition), move recovery partition Windows 10, explore the content of recovery partition, and so on. Now grasp this freeware to help manage you recovery partition Windows 10.
Step 3. Here you can choose how to carry out the recovery: to keep your files or to remove everything. Depending on your own needs, you should make your own decision. Then the reset process begins.
In this post, I mainly talk about what is recovery partition, how to create recovery partition, can a recovery partition be removed and how to delete it, how to back up recovery partition, etc. Hope these information are helpful. In addition, I strongly recommend using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition to help you since it is free, reliable and easy to use.
Recovery partition is a special partition on system hard drive and is used to restore the system to factory settings in the event of system issues. To protect recovery partition from being changed or deleted, recovery partition usually has no drive letter, and only a Help option is provided in Disk Management.
You can delete a recovery partition without affecting the running OS. For average users, it is better to keep the recovery partition as it is in the hard drive, as such a partition won't take up too much space
This update requires 250 MB of free space in the recovery partition to install successfully. If the recovery partition does not have sufficient free space, this update will fail. In this case, you will receive the following error message:
Yes but you cannot delete recovery partition in Disk Management utility. You would have to use a third party app to do so. You might just be better off to wipe the drive and install fresh copy of windows 10 since upgrades always leave behind fun stuff to deal with in the future.
The recovery partition is usually created by the manufacture of the PC for the purpose of restoring the PC to the factory original configuration. Since you have upgraded to Windows 10, and restoring from this partition usually wipes all of your installed programs and user data anyway, I would say that it is of no use to you. So go ahead and delete it. I believe that you can delete it using diskpart. But I agree with crashlite, I would strongly consider doing a fresh install.
Diskpart will not delete the recovery partition.
Since you recently upgraded, and as others have recommended, do a clean install of Windows 10. Afterwards you will feel better.
When I upgrade a machine to 10 I do an in place upgrade then do a clean install.
Best of luck.
Even if you install Windows 10 fresh it creates this partition automatically, this will mean that if you delete it will make Windows 10 not able to do resets which as above said would make without any software but keep your data. If this is an SSD, I would adjust the Page File as it can do wear and tear on it.
You are correct, I was thinking about the OEM recovery partition and confusing it with the recovery partition created with a GPT/UEFI install. One thing though, if the OP does a clean install at least it will not be stuck in the middle of the disk.
I found that deleting the RE partition would cause the OS to not boot. (which is unusual in my experience). I have studied MBR and UEFI booting a lot more since and cannot say for sure but I think the BCD in the ESP partition might have been pointing to the RE partition, and the information there was finishing the process of booting the OS on the system partition. I actually wish I still had a clone of that disk so I could be sure of exactly what was happening, now that I better understand how it all works (BTW it looks like you do not have an ESP partition on that disk so you must be using UEFI fallback or MBR booting).
I'm a owner of a HP Mini 5101. It has a function to press F11 to return the system into the "out-of-the-box" state. But my problem starts here. When I press F11 I imediately get a screen that says Windows Boot manager on top and and error : 0xc000000e and required device is inaccessible.
Thank you very much for getting back to me so fast.
I have to apologize as I did not explain my problem in the right way. Technically I am able to boot the partition, but the problem occurs when the partition needs to boot into WinRE or WinPE I guess so that the recovery can start. The loading process gets stuck immediately at the beginning even before anything "Windows related stuff" starts loading. So about five seconds after I turn on the computer and boot into the recovery partition, or pressing F11 the error that I'm describing shows up.
I managed to fix my problem. After setting the recovery partition to active, and booting from the installation USB with windows 7, I managed to fix the mbr that was corrupted and the partition didn't know what to boot. So after fixing it, i had no problem running the recovery.
1.Right-click on "Computer" icon and select manage.
2.This will launch the Microsoft Management Console.
3.On the left side of the MMC, click on "Disk Management" and it will show you all of the partitions.
4.Right-click on the "HP Recovery" partition and select "Mark as Active Partition."
5.When the warning prompt appears, select "Yes" - Reboot the notebook and it will automatically boot into the Recovery Manager (without having to press F11).