How to Delete Recovery Partition in Windows Server

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2 min readMay 9, 2023

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Steps to Delete Recovery Partition via Diskpart:

Step 1. Press “Windows + R” to open the Run box. Then, type “diskpart” on the “Open” box and click OK.

Step 2. type the following command lines and press Enter.

  • list disk (Show all disks on Server computer.)
  • select disk * (* stands the disk that includes the recovery partition. For example, select disk 1.)
  • list partition (Display all sections of the selected disk.)
  • select partition * (Select the recovery partition number.)
  • delete partition

Details

Step1: Start the command prompt with the administrator privileges and run the “diskpart” command.

Step2: Type list disk.

Step3: A list of disks will be displayed. Note the number of the disk which has the partition you wish to remove. (If in doubt open disk management and look there, see steps above).

Step4: Type select disk n (Replace n with the disk number with the partition you wish to remove).

Step5: Type list partition.

Step6: A list of partitions will be displayed and hopefully you should see one called Recovery and it is the same size as the one you wish to remove.

Step7: Type select partition n (Replace n with the partition you wish to delete).

Step8: Type delete partition override.

Step9: The recovery partition will now be deleted.

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