How to Delete Recovery Partition of VM to allow disk extension

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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!!

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