Windows 10: Still Cannot Delete Recovery Partition

Tried the commands a few times still am not able to get rid of the Recovery Partition image I made by accident when creating a Recovery usb disk backup.*john






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How can I reset hard drive to factory settings

No, you cannot restore a deleted recovery partition.

 

Cannot delete recovery partition

solved

power shell as administrator

diskpart

select disk 0

select partition 3

delete partion 3

 

A Recovery partition is part of Windows:




Don't try to delete it- you will lose recovery options.

If you really really want to do that, do it from a command prompt outside Windows or a partition manager boot disk, for example.

 

Hi...not this one it was created when I was making a recovery USB drive...by mistake I selected it to leave a copy of it on the computer...now it's just taking up over 6gig space....this is a small 28gig drive so I need the space...here is my disk management...you can see it is a separate drive and allows no changes.*john

 

Ok, assuming you mean the 7Gb partition on Disk 1:- if you can't delete it with Windows running, you can delete it from outside Windows as I said, using a partition manager boot disk and booting from that, or by booting to a command prompt via SHIFT+ left click Restart (i.e. Windows is not then running).

I'd have guessed that might be your manufacturer's recovery partition.

 

You could try unregistering it. From elevated command prompt see if disk 1 is registered as recovery partition with reagentc /info and if it is disable it with reagentc /disable

You could also try (in diskpart)
select disk 1
clean

 

I was given the option to save a copy of this recovery image...whats the use if I can't even acces it?
I thought there is a way to simply erase it...never even knew it was there untill i checked disk management...it's not even shown in file explorer....partition manager whats that another program which I would have to create a boot disk from it?....to get to which screen....recovery boot menu?*john

 

You already have methods that will work.... have you actually tried them?

You could also remove the disk from your PC and format it by connecting it to another PC.... (!)

 

I tried all the commands I can find here and the net...only 'Clear' worked to wipe the data on that drive but I can't access that stupid drive...so right now it is 7 gig of lost space....being a small laptop I can not remove it anyways....28 gig drive.
I also am running my desktop pc with eight different Windows systems between two 500 gig hard drives so I know how to create partitions and expand and shrink and delete.
This drive is like a mystery partition ...
How can I even run a chkdsk if the is no drive letter assigned?...and it's not listed in the File explorer.
This is a weird issue and I really do not want to re-install Windows.*john

 

Have you tried booting from a partition manager's boot disk?

Or Win 10's boot disk, and format the drive, or whatever you'd like to try?

 

I have cleared it ...I want to 'Delete' it....it has infiltrated it self but cannot be used....if you look at the pictures I posted it looks like a separate drive but it is not....it has blindly taken 7 gig from my 28 gig drive....that 7gig is not shown anywhere as used files taking up space...it is basically hidden and not accessible...oh it's there alright...
it's as though Windows created a partition and removed all privileges of accessing it.*john

 

Have you formatted the drive?

 

I can't access it...Again I was able to clear the data it is now 100% free space but I cannot delete this partition.*john