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15 December 2023  Jennifer Thatcher  Technology Manager of Test Dept.
 

Summary
How to delete a recovery partition from your hard disk to free up space? To keep your data safe, read this article and learn how to properly copy recovery partition to another hard disk.



Table of contents

table iconI. What is the recovery partition?
table iconII. Use Renee Becca to copy the recovery partition to other hard drives
table iconIII. How to delete the recovery partition?
table iconIV. Extended: How to use the recovery partition to restore the system?
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I. What is the recovery partition?

The recovery partition is a dedicated section of your computer’s storage that typically holds data to restore your system to its original state. In the event of a system crash or failure to start, this partition allows you to reset your computer to its factory settings. There are two types of recovery partitions: one is created during the installation of Windows and only contains the essential operating system files, taking up minimal disk space. The other is created by computer manufacturers, such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and includes the operating system, drivers, and pre-installed applications, taking up more storage space.
It is worth mentioning that even if the recovery partition is not stored on the system drive, the system will not experience any failures, so you can copy recovery partition to hard drive and migrate it back when needed.
In order to transfer the recovery partition to an external hard drive or USB and utilize it for system recovery, you have the option to manually generate a recovery drive on the external U disk. This recovery drive functions as a boot disk and contains the recovery image, allowing access to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) for system reinstallation in the event of startup issues. Keep in mind that creating a recovery drive necessitates a USB flash drive with a minimum capacity of 16GB (the disk cannot be selected) and will erase any existing data on the USB drive. Once the recovery drive is successfully created, the recovery partition on the computer can be removed. For detailed instructions on how to remove the partition, please refer to the third section of this text.

II. Use Renee Becca to copy the recovery partition to other hard drives

1. What is Renee Becca?

Renee Becca It is a tool specially used for system/hard disk data backup and restoration. It can help you back up and restore important data in your computer, such as programs, system configuration, emails, photos, videos, documents, bookmarks, etc. It adopts the leading incremental/differential backup technology, which can save you more time and disk space. In addition to supporting system backup, it also supports partition backup, hard disk backup, file backup, and disk cloning to meet your different needs.
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2. Method of backup/migration recovery partition

We can achieve the purpose of migrating the recovery partition by backing up and storing the recovery partition to another hard disk. The specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Run the computer, press the (Windows+X) keys at the same time and find the (Disk Management) option to view the size of the recovery partition.
disk management
Step 2: Download, install and run Renee Becca on the computer, select the (disk/partition backup) option in the main interface (backup) column.
Renee Becca backup function
Step 3: Next, select the recovery partition to be backed up in (source file (device)) (you can judge according to the capacity checked in step 1), and select the location to store the backup data in (destination). Finally, click (Backup).
clone the disk with Renee Becca
In addition, if you want to restore the recovery partition, click (Recovery)-(Disk/Partition Recovery), select the backup source and destination, and click the (Restore Now) button to restore the backup.
Restore Hard Disk or Partition
The above is the detailed operation method to backup/migrate the recovery partition of the hard disk to other hard disks with the help of Renee Becca, and then delete the recovery partition to expand the space of the original hard disk. The following are the specific deletion steps.

III. How to delete the recovery partition?

Step 1: Run the computer, press the (Windows+X) key at the same time, and select the (Disk Management) option to determine the location and capacity of the recovery partition, which is usually on the system disk.
disk management
Step 2: Search for (diskpart) in the lower left corner of the taskbar, and choose to run the program as an administrator.
run diskpart
Step 3: Next, enter the following commands one by one. After entering the commands, you need to press the Enter key.
list disk (list disks)
select disk 0 (Select disk 0, 0 is the target disk number, that is, the disk where the recovery partition is located, please replace the number with the actual situation)
list volume (list volumes)
select volume 1 (1 is the number of the recovery partition, which can be judged according to the capacity, please replace the number with the actual situation)
delete volume 1 (delete volume 1)
list disk
If the recovery partition cannot be deleted using the above command, you can try to enter the following command after select volume 1 and press the Enter key.
list partition (list partitions)
select partition 2 (2 is the recovery partition, please replace the number according to the actual situation)
delete partition override (delete selected partitions)
list partition

IV. Extended: How to use the recovery partition to restore the system?

Let’s take the Windows 10 system as an example to teach you how to restore the system with the help of the recovery partition. The following are the detailed steps:
Step 1: Run the PC device, press the (Windows) button on the keyboard, and then find the (Settings)-(Update and Security)-(Recovery) option. Then click the (Get started) button under “Reset this PC” to start executing the computer reset command.
Reset to format PC or nec laptop in Windows 10
Step 2: Next, select (troubleshooting) – (reset this computer), then you will see two options, namely (Keep my files) and (Remove everything), you can choose to keep data or delete data according to your actual needs.

Restart the computer after the operation is complete, and your device will be restored according to the recovery partition.

Remove everything in Windows 10