Can I remove Win. 8 Recovery on D drive. I now have Win. 10

lx07 said:

If you don't want to restore back to 8 there is no point keeping it on your disk. You already have a backup of it in case you want it in future for some reason.

I think this is the easiest way (not withstanding the backup discussion). To elaborate slightly, go to disk management by holding down the and X keys together and then pick Disk Management from the menu that appears.

In Disk Management screen, Right click on D and select "Delete Volume...". Make sure you pick the correct one

Then right click on C and click "Extend Volume...".

When I right click on D, all I get is Help to show.

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topgundcp said:

D: Drive is a Recovery Partition type, you cannot delete from Disk Management. Use diskpart to delete it.
Right click on and select Command Prompt (Admin) then type:
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 7
delete partition override
exit

D drive is now gone. Thanks for the easy instructions. I'm not very computer literate, and also scared stiff to try working with anything in the Command Prompt.

topgundcp said:

Please mark as "SOLVED" to help others.

I'm planning to do that right now.

Sonjstar said:

D drive is now gone. Thanks for the easy instructions. I'm not very computer literate, and also scared stiff to try working with anything in the Command Prompt.

topgundcp; is there a way thru cmd or diskmgnt to merge this new unallocated space with C if it's not next to it ?

topgundcp said:

No. The easiest way to merge is to use: MiniTool Partition Wizard
You can also use Macrium to swap the partitions if you have it installed.

I would not of thought to use Macrium to Swap partitions .....nice tip !

I think you can only Merge partitions if they are next to each other and in this case you have all those extra recovery partition in the way. My guess they are from Windows 8 and the Upgrade to 10 and can be deleted too after running some checks too see if Recovery is enabled and which Partition it is using though. I have not seen a 1023mb Recovery partition before ,win10 should be using the 450mb one, which is normal partition 1 (see below)

At an Admin Command Prompt to see if Recovery is enabled and which partition it is using type:

reagentc /info

and you should see something similar to this......



C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 74d215eb-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.