How do I remove a recovery drive.

[Uptivuptiz]

Hi,

The other day I wanted to make a system image backup and mistook the backup feature for the "Create a system backup image". Therefor my external HDD is now a backup drive. Is there any way to remove the drive from the backup feature?

Here's a screenshot. It's the Maxtor drive I would like removed.

 

Thanks

[GeneralOxxy]

Type "diskpart.exe" in the search box, in the listed results, right-click on Diskpart and select Run as administrator.

 

At a Diskpart prompt, type in "list disk" to display all the disks. Each disk on your computer will be listed with a disk number.

 Specify the disk that contains the recovery partition by typing in "select disk n", in which "n" should be replaced with the disk number listed before.

 Type in "list volume" to list all the partitions on the selected disk with all the partition labels, so you can determine which one is the recovery partition to be deleted. If you want to see the partition type, use "list partition" command instead.

 Specify the partition you want to delete using the volume number, like this: "select volume 3".

 Type in: "delete volume".

[GeneralOxxy]

this is for windows 10 btw

you windows 7 or 8 or 10?

 

[Uptivuptiz]

2 minutes ago, GeneralOxxy said:

this is for windows 10 btw

you windows 7 or 8 or 10?

 

Win 10. I think I wasn't clear enough. The thing I want is the disk removed in the control panel so that it doesn't show up as a recovery drive at all. It's inside the "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" feature. I already deleted the partition. It's a small thing, but my OCD can't take it 

[GeneralOxxy]

i bet my money that its in windows cache because before u used it as recovery drive so yeah but i dont know where to go from there

[GeneralOxxy]

restarting your system or clearing cache / temp cache maybe?

[Uptivuptiz]

1 minute ago, GeneralOxxy said:

restarting your system or clearing cache / temp cache maybe?

Tried restarting. Didn't work. How do I clear cache?

[GeneralOxxy]

windows button + r then %appdata% then local then temp and delete every file there 

if it says some files cannot be deleted then just leave them

[GeneralOxxy]

19 minutes ago, Uptivuptiz said:

Hi,

The other day I wanted to make a system image backup and mistook the backup feature for the "Create a system backup image". Therefor my external HDD is now a backup drive. Is there any way to remove the drive from the backup feature?

Here's a screenshot. It's the Maxtor drive I would like removed.

 

Thanks

did u try clicking change settings and seeing if u can remove it from there

[Uptivuptiz]

Just now, GeneralOxxy said:

did u try clicking change settings and seeing if u can remove it from there

Yeah I did. It just began making a new backup and that was it....

[GeneralOxxy]

Just now, Uptivuptiz said:

Yeah I did. It just began making a new backup and that was it....

oh well sorry for wasting ur time lol

[Uptivuptiz]

1 minute ago, GeneralOxxy said:

oh well sorry for wasting ur time lol

No problem. It's me asking for help  

[Acedia]

4 hours ago, Uptivuptiz said:

Yeah I did. It just began making a new backup and that was it....

Did it start a new backup (as in trying to run now) or bring up the configuration menu to create a new backup set?