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This doesn't directly answer the question but provide a workaround to recover the space used by the recovery partition. Option 3: using Disk Manager to shrink the recovery partition and merge the extra space with the main partition If the option to delete partition isn't in the context menu, go to option 3.

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Try something like EaseUS free partition manager. Option 2: Using a third party partition manager

If you get Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume.

type list disk and press Enter, then select disk X (X is your disk containing your recovery drive ) and press Enter, then list partition, then select partition X (X is your recovery partition) and then delete partition override.

Start menu, search for diskpart, right click, select open file location, right click on diskpart.exe and select Run as administrator.

Option 1: Deleting a recovery partition using diskpart: Usually I re-purpose drives so I don't worry about data loss, but back up your data and use a desktop. Partition 3 is now the selected partition.ĭiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition.Īfter that you should be able to convert to dynamic disk. I would try using diskpart (from an elevated command prompt) to delete the partition. You should be able to force by using the override command. You aren't able to delete the recovery partition because it EFI protected. If your machine is anything but a desktop then you would get the error you have. You are getting this error for a different reason. I tried using DiskPart from an elevated command prompt: >diskpartĬannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set. The problem i'm actually trying to solve is how do i convert the disk to dynamic (without reinstalling Windows of course).

Why does Windows not let a user delete a Recovery Partition?.Why did Windows create the Recovery Parition in the first place?.Which apparently means that my machine doesn't have a Recovery Partition, yet i refer you to: When i complete the wizard, there isn't offered the option to remove a recovery partition:

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If you experience this, there isn't a recovery partition on your PC that's using additional disc space. Some PCs don't offer the option to remove a recovery partition. When the removal is done, tap or click Finish. This will free up the disk space used to store your recovery image. If you want to remove the recovery partition from your PC and free up disk space, tap or click Delete the recovery partition. If you want to keep the recovery partition on your PC, tap or click Finish.When the process is done, do one of the following: Microsoft says you can use the Create Recovery Drive to delete a recovery partitionįrom Create a USB recovery drive, which is used to create a USB recovery drive, there is supposed to be an option at the end of the wizard to delete the recovery partition on the hard drive:

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the recovery partition was created when Windows 7 Retail was cleanly installed on the PCīonus Question: Why did Windows 7 create a "Recovery Partition"?īonus Question: How do you create, or re-create, a "Recovery Partition" on a hard drive that does not have one?įortunately i don't have to back anything up from this Recovery Partition, since Windows says it is empty:Įxcept the directions on Microsoft support don't work - there is no option to delete the recovery partition:.

this recovery partition didn't come from an OEM.

But if anyone would refuse to answer the question unless i gave a justification, there one is. Note: I don't need a reason to ask my question. Start Disk Manager, right-click the last partition, and then click Delete Partition.

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Microsoft documents the problem, and notes the solution is to delete the last partition on the disk: Not Enough Space Available to Upgrade to a Dynamic Disk Unfortunately there is no room on the disk to convert the drive from basic to dynamic. I need to convert the disk containing my operating system to a dynamic disk (from a basic disk).