Delete recovery partition?

[jarodlee88]

My laptop came with a C and D drive but in between there's a recovery drive. So basically my C drive is getting full so i would like to remove my recovery partition to combine all the storage into one drive only as I already have an external hard drive to backup my files. The problem is that I can't seem to remove the recovery partition as seen in the image below. Thanks in advance for anyone who helped

[meenmeen1103]

That partition is there in case you ever want to restore laptop to complete factory state. Your C drive is barely at 31%, and deleting the 499MB recovery to add it won't make a big enough addition imo, that's .0005 of a 1TB drive.

[it_dont_work]

While I haven't done it myself yet since I stuff around (badly) with more traditional raid. Microsoft storage spaces should be able to setup a storage pool of both those partitions

 

Other way to do it is blow away the recovery partition using gparted live and extend the main partition...Or just move your download video document libraries to the other volume and set the targets there. That'll move a fair chunk of data of your os partition.  There is no performance gains or anything from joining the partitions if that's what you're worried about.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

I think maybe that you are underestimating how much storage space Windows needs. Especially now that you will need to include the "extended"  file folder size (the part of the memory reserved for OS expansion). It is after all, isn't it simply the reason why a 60GB SSD is just not big enough anymore?

[jarodlee88]

19 hours ago, meenmeen1103 said:

That partition is there in case you ever want to restore laptop to complete factory state. Your C drive is barely at 31%, and deleting the 499MB recovery to add it won't make a big enough addition imo, that's .0005 of a 1TB drive.

That's not the point. There's like 100+GB left on my C drive. I just want to combine my C drive with my D drive. Basically I want to remove the partition for the C and D drive which i can't do unless i remove the recovery partition. Also, I don't care about that 499MB of partition lol

[jarodlee88]

19 hours ago, it_dont_work said:

While I haven't done it myself yet since I stuff around (badly) with more traditional raid. Microsoft storage spaces should be able to setup a storage pool of both those partitions

 

Other way to do it is blow away the recovery partition using gparted live and extend the main partition...Or just move your download video document libraries to the other volume and set the targets there. That'll move a fair chunk of data of your os partition.  There is no performance gains or anything from joining the partitions if that's what you're worried about.

Yeah, I don't actually want to separate my folders into 2 different drives. If you know how to combine the C and D drive then that'll be great!

[jarodlee88]

14 hours ago, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

I think maybe that you are underestimating how much storage space Windows needs. Especially now that you will need to include the "extended"  file folder size (the part of the memory reserved for OS expansion). It is after all, isn't it simply the reason why a 60GB SSD is just not big enough anymore?

Uhmm... I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say. Could you explain?

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

On 02/10/2016 at 4:44 PM, jarodlee88 said:

Uhmm... I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say. Could you explain?

When the operating system is upgraded, let's say from Windows 7 to Windows 10 the new system configures some storage space to put the previous system folder (a copy if you like). You do not get the option of not allowing this to happen and this is the space that I was talking about.

 

Have you tried doing a disk clean-up (within Windows)?

Press the Windows key and start typing Disc Cleanup then follow the prompts.

 

If you want to clean up the recovery partitions the best way to do it is by doing a clean install of Windows 10. There are tools that allow you to delete the sections, however, if you do not know how to complete a recovery of your computer from recovery media I would suggest then leaving it alone.