Update Workflows/Windows/Delete Windows Recovery Partition.md

This commit is contained in:
2025-03-17 15:43:13 -06:00
parent 0348738640
commit 13a7d32a1f

View File

@ -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. 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: **From within the VM** > Open a powershell window and run the following commands:
``` powershell ```powershell
diskpart # (1) diskpart # (1)
list disk # (2) list disk # (2)
select disk 0 # (3) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
```