diff --git a/Workflows/Windows/Delete Windows Recovery Partition.md b/Workflows/Windows/Delete Windows Recovery Partition.md index 0373d12..1bc57b2 100644 --- a/Workflows/Windows/Delete Windows Recovery Partition.md +++ b/Workflows/Windows/Delete Windows Recovery Partition.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sometimes you are running a virtual machine and are running out of space, and want to expand the operating system disk. However, there is a recovery partition to-the-right of the operating system partition. When this happens, you have to delete that partition in order to expand the storage space for the operating system. **From within the VM** > Open a powershell window and run the following commands: -``` powershell +```powershell diskpart # (1) list disk # (2) select disk 0 # (3) @@ -22,4 +22,19 @@ exit # (9) 6. This instructs the computer to delete the partition and ignore the fact that it was a recovery partition. 7. You want to select the operating system partition now, so we can expand it. This partition will generally be of a type "**Primary**" and be the largest size partition on the disk. 8. This will expand the operating system partition into the unallocated space that is now available to it. -9. Gracefully close the disk management CLI utility. \ No newline at end of file +9. Gracefully close the disk management CLI utility. + +## Free Space Validation +From this point, you might want to triple-check the free space has been accounted for, so you can run the following command to check for free space: +```powershell +Get-Volume | Select-Object DriveLetter, FileSystem, @{Name="FreeSpace(GB)"; Expression={"{0:N2}" -f ($_.SizeRemaining / 1GB)}}, @{Name="TotalSize(GB)"; Expression={"{0:N2}" -f ($_.Size / 1GB)}} +``` + +!!! example "Output Example" + ``` + DriveLetter FileSystem FreeSpace(GB) TotalSize(GB) + ----------- ---------- ------------- ------------- + C NTFS 398.40 476.20 + FAT32 0.06 0.09 + NTFS 0.11 0.63 + ``` \ No newline at end of file