How to Delete Recovery Partition of VM to allow disk extension

How to Delete Recovery Partition of VM to allow disk extension

Use the below command’s to Delete Recovery Partition of VM  in windows 8/10 and 11. So that you guys can extend the disk of VM :-

Recovery partition is protected partition so need to use diskpart, and the select the partition and delete using override command.

DISKPART>rescan

DISKPART>List disk

DISKPART>Select disk 0

DISKPART>list part

DISKPART>select part 5

DISKPART>delete partition override

Command notes in order:-

1. rescan to ensure full list of disk and partitions is selected.

2. List the disk available for diskpart to manage .

3. Select the appropriate disk – this will almost always be disk 0 for an MCS master image machine as it only works with disk anyway.

4.

list partitions on that disk. make a note of the one showing as recovery partition.

5. select the partition with the override command.

You can now extend the partition into empty space. WOWWW!!