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operations/windows/delete-windows-recovery-partition.md

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+**Purpose**:
+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.  
+
+These commands can be run in a headless environment using just powershell.
+
+!!! warning "Use Correct Drive & Partition Numbers"
+    In my example codeblock, I assume the OS drive is `0` and the recovery partition is `4`.  Please validate your own drive and partition numbers with the supplied `list disk` and `list partition` commands.  Failure to identify the correct drive and/or partition could result in the unintended destruction of data.
+
+**From within the VM** > Open a powershell window and run the following commands:
+```powershell
+diskpart # (1)
+list disk # (2)
+select disk 0 # (3)
+list partition # (4)
+select partition 4 # (5)
+delete partition override # (6)
+select partition 3 # (7)
+extend # (8)
+exit # (9)
+```
+
+1.  This opens the disk management CLI tool.
+2.  This displays all disks attached to the device.
+3.  Ensure this disk number corresponds to the operating system disk.  Open the Disk Management GUI if you are not 100% certain.
+4.  List all partitions on the previously-selected disk.
+5.  This partition number is for the partition of type "**Recovery**".  If you see a different partition with a type of "**Recovery**" use that partition number instead.
+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.
+
+## Free Space Validation
+From this point, you might want to verify 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
+    ```