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HOWTO: Windows Recovery Partition is blocking easily growing the C: partition….

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Why does Microsoft do this? When did this start?

Solution: Removing the Recovery Partition

  1. Disable the recovery mode

  2. Delete the partition

  3. Extend the disk using disk management

Bonus: Restoring the Recovery Partition

I generally don’t bother with this because i’m running VMs and take snapshots/backups.. but if you must

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Categories: TECHNICAL

shlee

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