How to delete a recovery partition to expand your storage
Ғылым және технология
Professor Robert McMillen shows you how to delete a recovery partition to extend your hard drive in Windows 10, Server 2012, 2016, and 2019. This allows you to expand your drive if you have unused space but unable to do so.
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2 years later and still saving people. Thank you! Can finally convert to GPT and enable SAM
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@AintPopular
Жыл бұрын
Same boat did you create recovery partition later after converting gpt
Even 2 years later this video is extremely helpful and exactly what I needed. I appreciate you being straightforward with this walkthrough and I look forward to browsing the rest of your channel. Thank you!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling because I was unaware of the "delete partition override" command and could not get rid of a few partitions. Great video! Concise, great audio, no annoying background music, easy English for an American to understand. 👍
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
This is the ONLY video that helped me troubleshoot "deleting extra partitions" and getting access to "extend volume" to get all my space back on one drive finally. Can't thank you enough!!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear!
Erik Rogel : my thoughts exactly. I have just watched about 12 different videos that failed to concisely explain this process. Prof McMillen's explanation finally got it thru my thick skull. Thumbs up!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching.
Exactly what I needed and straight to the point, no BS. You sir did a fine job with this tutorial.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching.
You absolute STAR! Honestly. So simple. No technical support could help, but you did it instantly! SO GRATEFUL :)
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
You are so helpful, i've literally gone to 100 different videos and websites trying to figure out how to do this, youre the best dude!!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
When you can't find any ways, this video literally shows you ways from there. Thanx man!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. This information was so hard to find on the rest of the internet.
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Very simple and understandable for an old semi Geek who does not work in CMD PROMPT too often. Thank you was able to remove Factory Installed partitions that were useless because they had Windows 10 on it and was using 18GB of space between them. I already upgraded to Windows 11 and will now create a recovery Image to use with my Recovery USB Drive. I now have full access to my entire C Drive and there is only the small 250MB UEFI recovery partition created by Windows 11 on it.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you got the extra space and thanks for watching.
i dont know if you still read the comment but i want to let you know that your video is a lifesaver for me today. I also learn a new thing too, kudos to you my dude.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thanks you so much. Your explanation was simple and easy to understand with no nonsense talk. The video and audio was clear. 🙂🙏👍
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
Thanks!!!! Went to computer management and was surprised I wasnt able to control everything from that. Your tutorial is the best!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
My god you made it so simple to understand an d execute. I was afraid my problem was too specific to find a solution for but here your video was. Thank you so much for saving me so much trouble.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
This video is very easy to follow. No intro, no music, no worries.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
I love how straight to the point you give the tutorial is
@techpub
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Very nice and easy to follow guide. Sorted out a drive that had many recovery partitions.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
This helped me a lot! Was running into an issue trying to convert my drive and couldn't delete the partitions at first. Thank you!
@techpub
9 ай бұрын
Glad it helped!
Exactly what I needed and straight to the point. all killer no filler. thanks Tech Pub, upvoted and subscribed!!! thanks!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could assist.
Thank you! I was trying to set up my new SSD, and after cloning it I ran into some issues with unallocated space. This fixed it! Thanks again!
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
It's amazing how much you forget when you don't use it. Thanks for the refresher.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
Straight to the point. Exactly what I needed. Thank you sir.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could assist.
Thank you so much !!! just cloned my drive from my old PC onto new PC ( OS and some programs ) only when i looked i was only seeing 465gb instead of 931 usable, found the problem, couldn't fix it because couldn't extent the drive due to recovery partition being in between. Found your video, watched it, wrote down command prompts and it worked perfectly ! Now i consolidated everything and drive is not split up.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped and thanks for watching.
@PaulJohn01
Жыл бұрын
@@techpub Welcome ! I Subscribed just for that, I would Subscribe a 2nd time if possible just for the fact i saw in the comments you still reply to people on a 3 year old video 👍👍. You saved me time, energy and money.
Works on windows 11 too for people who need to know! Thanks man, very useful, straight forward and informative!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear!
Thank you sooo much...you have explained everything well and it worked well for me...I was trying to extend my c drive for so long...trying to remove this recovery partition all the way...and now I did it... thanks a ton..
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could assist.
Thank you so much sir, I searched for 3 hours and your video solved it in 2 minutes.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome
Thanks for not spending 5 minutes waffling or trying to talk me out of it! Cheers dude!
@techpub
10 ай бұрын
Glad to help.
Thank you SO MUCH! It took me over 1 hour to find your video and all the other KZreadrs or website admins just recommended their own stupid software (which didn't even help me in most cases!)... After I watched your video I finally deleted the Healthy Recovery Partition and now I have about 200 GB of space more on my C drive!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
That's great! Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much. I was running a VM and for some reason it was expanding the size of the recovery partition. This helped me out a lot!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Mate, thank you so much! This was perfect and so concise.
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Good lord, trying to do clean wipe of my drive so I can do a 100% fresh install of windows was beyond frustrating. Thank you so much for this no nonsense tutorial.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help
Absolutely excellent video I really needed this to reuse my old HDD and add new HDD to my new PC so useful thank you. Much love from the UK.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
I wish I had found this video a couple of days ago. shit, everything I've read and tried.. my head hurts. Y are MVP, hero and savior. 5/5 for this video.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad to help and thanks for watching!
Thanks sir! Your video was very helpful. Simple and clear instructions.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
This is my first comment ever and all i can say is you saved me hours of work, thank you
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
thanks a ton. I have a 10TB external drive that I had cloned my 1TB boot drive too. I decided I didn't want it on there anymore and was able to delete the 1TB partition but that stupid recovery partition was in between that partition and the other 9TB partition and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to extend it so they would join. By following your tutorial it did the trick now i have my full 10TB for storage instead of a 1TB and 9TB, lol.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
the only video that is concise and works!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
The best explanation in short time👍
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
This helped me so much after struggling to delete recovery, thanks!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Great!
Thank you very much... I just upgraded a 512 ssd to a 1TB ssd; after the installation and the the system image install; all was fine, but the new space was not available from the drive, all I found online was cloning and cloning software for the fix; it took awhile,but I was more then pleased to find your; instruction. Be-Well, L.A.Cal-
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
Thank you kindly for this video tutorial 😊 The video was very helpful and you walking us through it was so easy to understand. ❤
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and glad to hear it helped.
Fantastic! Thank you so much for this. Exactly what I needed!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks bro, you're an absolute legend.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
thank you so much Sir! this really helps me T-T. i've been searching ways to extend my storage for a week now but none really helps me. again THANK YOU SIR!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
Straight to the point, love it.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
THANK YOU! I recently bought a new laptop and it had a M.2 256GB SSD(which is practically 238GB usable) and it had four chunks of healthy recovery partitions (14GB, 1.38GB, 990MB) which didn't seem to be delete-able. Luckily i found your video and it saved my life!!!! i hope deleting this partitions wont cause any harm? THANKS!!!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Excellent! No harm should come to your computer.
thanks for the concise walkthrough. appreciate it.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent tutorial! Thanks for uploading!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching.
Finally I managed to delete unwanted partition, TQ so much
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
Thank you for the detailed explanation. It worked perfect. Thank You !!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
SR, You have all of my respect! thank you !
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome
Thank you Sir, straight to the point was great.
@techpub
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
Brilliant! Exactly the annoying problem I was trying to fix. Thanks.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped and thanks for watching.
Thank you for the video, just what I needed after removing dual boot Linux from my machine!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Lovely! At last there is a way to get rid of unwanted partions!
@techpub
4 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thank you Robert you made ti so easy. You are a good techer.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
This was ultra helpful and clear!!
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Thanks it worked perfectly and solved the problem. Big thumps up
@techpub
7 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
Wow, thanks brother, very clear tutorial ❤️❤️❤️
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could assist.
That was exactly what i was looking for thank you so much!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to help out.
Thank you so much sir with lots of love from India. You have help me a lot 🙏🙏🙏
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thank so much! easy to follow and did it in just a whim.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it could help and thanks for watching.
Easy and works as explained. Thank you.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped Marius!
Thank you so much, exactly what i was looking for😉
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
sooo helpful and clear! thank you so so much!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped and thanks for watching.
Thank you! Very good and straight to the point. You got my sub
Thank you Soo much finally done it after searching the solution for 2 hours❤❤
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
Life Saver!!! You da Man Robert!!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
THANKU SO MUCH I WAS SUFFERING WITH THIS FROM MONTHS GOD BLESS YOU LOVE FROM INDIA :)
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Thanks. This worked like a charm
@techpub
7 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
Great job, nice video. Thanks!
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
Really helpful! Thank you so much!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
I wished it didn't take me hours to find this video. Just what I needed
@techpub
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
Thank you very much. You wouldn't believe how many help articles there are out there telling you to go buy 3rd party software for this nonsense. That "override" part is the key element that no one tells you about.
@techpub
10 ай бұрын
Glad to help.
this was perfect. much appreciated!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much. You are the best!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thank you so much. This really helped.
@techpub
5 ай бұрын
Glad the video helped!
Thank you. Helped me fix the problem
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
Great tutorial!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
You Sir are a Genius! Thank You!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
That was really helpful thank you.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, your video helped me.🔥
@techpub
10 ай бұрын
Glad to help!
This was so much helpful ✨ and we'll explained easy clear
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding. Thanks! Why Microsoft won't allow us to simply do this through the Disk Management interface is baffling.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much. It really worked for me!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Thanks it worked. Perfect guide !!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped
@chimchana5631
2 жыл бұрын
@@techpub please can we restore the partition disk after deleting it ? And I want to know if deleting it will cause problem after ?
thanks, clear and precise.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much, have been trying for days to fix my C drive, so I can double boot to run some older programs that will not run in Windows 10
@1barnhill1
2 жыл бұрын
You might also mention to run cmd as administrator
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped! and good tip.
Great Video, Thanks.
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
thank you... very easy and simple
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome 😊
good ... easy & detailed thanks
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Dude thank you!!!!! So helpful!!!
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
straight talking thanks very much . a great tutorial
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
You're the man, thank you.
@techpub
7 ай бұрын
Glad to help
It's useful. Thanks a lot!
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Finally! Really thank you
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
Thank you very much, it saves my disk space
@techpub
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thanks. Very useful.
@techpub
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!