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Recovery Partition & Extending Volume on new Drive

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A couple of quick steps you need to follow if your new Hard drive has larger capacity than your original one and the additional space is listed on your new drive as a separate "recovery partition" 

 

From an elevated CMD prompt

DISKPART> list disk

DISKPART> select disk 0

 

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

 

DISKPART> list partition

 

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset

  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------

  Partition 1    Primary            223 GB  1024 KB

  Partition 3    Recovery           450 MB   223 GB

 

DISKPART> select partition 3

 

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

 

DISKPART> delete partition override

 

DiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition.

 

DISKPART> list partition

 

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset

  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------

  Partition 1    Primary            223 GB  1024 KB

 

Then ....

 

Go to Disk Management. ...

Locate the free space under Disk Management. ...

Right click C drive and select the item "Extend Volume".

When the Extend Volume Wizard opens, click Next to proceed through the setup.

Select the free space you want to allocate and click Add. ...

Review your selection and click Finish.

 

Simples :-) 

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Mike, welcome to these public User Forums.

If your Recovery partition is shown as only 450MB as per your example, then this is a valid Windows recovery partition and the majority of users should not be deleting this, especially as gaining such a small space is not worth the trouble it can cause them!

If the Recovery partition has been increased in size to an unusually large size in GB, then I would recommend that users download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and use this to resize and if needed, moved the Recovery partition to the end of any unallocated space on the drive.  This is far safer than users using diskpart unless they understand the risks of using this very powerful tool, and have made a full disk backup before starting!