Windows 10: Healthy recovery partition taking up lot of space

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  1. Healthy recovery partition taking up lot of space


    I have 2 disksDisk 1: 128gb SSDDisk 2: 1TB HDDI see on disk 1 there are 2 healthy recovery partitions taking up 11.69 + 1.08GB space.I want to know if it's safe to delete the 11.69 GB partition. I did some research and found out that partition 3 is being used. but I am not able to understand what partition 3 is. Attaching screenshots. Please help if anyone knows Thanks in advance

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    Ashutosh Agrawal2, Apr 12, 2023
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  2. Need to delete an old healthy Recovery partition.

    Press Windows key + X

    Click Disk Management

    Select the Recovery Partition

    Right click it, click 'Format'

    You will receive a Warning dialog, click OK to continue.

    The next step is to select your file system option, in this case, go with the default which is NTFS.

    The formatting process will now begin.

    Once complete, the drive will be displayed as a ‘Logical Drive’ in Disk Management.

    Right click the ‘Logical Drive’ in Disk Management, on the contextual menu, click the ‘Delete Volume’ option. Click ‘Yes’ when the warning dialog appears.

    The Volume you deleted will now appear as ‘Free space’, you will also notice that the disk icon no longer appears in the list of volumes.

    Right click the Free space partition, and click Delete, click Yes on the Disk Management warning that appears.

    The volume will now appear as Unallocated. Our next step is to merge back that unallocated free space with the system partition. Right click the System volume (usually the C:\ drive where Windows is installed) then click the ‘Extend Volume’ option on the contextual
    menu, click ‘Yes’ when the warning appears.

    A wizard will now begin that will guide through the steps to merge back the unallocated space with your system partition.

    The wizard provides a simple procedure to merge back the unallocated space with the system drive. Once you have selected the space, click Next, at the end of the wizard, you will see the amount allocated.
     
    Andre Da Costa, Apr 12, 2023
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  3. Unknow drive and recovery drive located on my PC

    Hi Cameron,

    As per the added information, I suggest that you delete the partition listed below:

    1. 99MB Healthy Partition.

    2. 450MB Healthy Recovery Partition (This is the system recovery drive that might have been created during Windows 10 installation)

    To delete the said partitions, you can follow the steps outlined below:

    1. Right click on Start Menu to open Disk Management.

    2. Here right click on the respective partition and select Delete Volume.

    If you delete a primary partition, the resulting empty space is called unallocated disk space . If you delete a logical drive within an extended partition, the resulting empty space is called
    free space.

    Hope this helps

    Regards
     
    Vanessa Sohtun, Apr 12, 2023
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  4. Healthy recovery partition taking up lot of space

    Need to delete an old healthy Recovery partition.

    How do I delete an old 449MB healthy Recovery partition.
     
    BarryMoore SR., Apr 12, 2023
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