Open an elevated PowerShell and type the following command.

You can run a command in Windows PowerShell to know which Recovery Partition is currently in use. Hence, you can delete it safely by using the Diskpart utility.

After the upgrade, the older recovery Partition becomes useless. This usually happens when you upgrade your system from an older version of Windows, say Windows 8.1 to a newer version of Windows, say Windows 10. Windows can create more than one Recovery partition. You should not delete the Recovery Partition created by OEM. The Recovery partition created by Windows has a size usually in Megabytes, whereas the Recovery partition created by OEM has a size in Gigabytes. It allows you to restore your system to factory default settings in case a problem occurs. This partition is created by the system manufacturer. You can also view this partition as a Recovery Drive in the File Explorer. Windows uses this Recovery Partition to boot into the Recovery Environment so that you could restore your system in case you are experiencing problems.Īnother Recovery Partition has a drive letter. It holds the Windows Recovery Environment ( Windows RE).

The Recovery Partition that does not have a drive letter is created at the time of Windows installation. One Recovery Partition has no drive letter and the other has a drive letter. If you open the Disk Management, you will see two types of Recovery Partitions. Some of you might have wondered “ Can we delete the Recovery Partition?” In this article, we will see how to delete Recovery Partition in Windows 11/10. Windows lets you create new and delete existing partitions on a particular hard disk. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer. A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes.

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