To create a new recovery partition we first must format the remaining 500MB free space accordingly. That way in case of a system failure you can easly troubleshoot and restore your system. However I highly recommend recreating the just deleted recovery enviroment. If you do not need your recovery environment you can stop here and enjoy your new disk space. You should however leave about 500MB room so we can recreate our recovery parition.Įxpanded Windows Partition Recreating the Recovery Partition # Now we can go ahead and extend our Windows Parition to consume the free space.
Partition 5 is now the selected partition.ĭiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition. Please wait while DiskPart scans your configuration.ĭiskPart has finished scanning your configuration. You can delete the recovery parition with DISKPART using the following commands from an admin commandline. We can go ahead and delete the recovery partition to make room for our primary Windows Partition. Windows 10 UEFI Paritions Deleting the Recovery Partition # Then you have your primary Windows parition followed by the recovery parition containing tools and data to recover your Windows installation in case of failures. Follwing the system partition you have the Microsoft Reserved Parition (MSR) that manages the partitions itself. Without the system parition you will not be able to start Windows. First comes a System Partition containing the master boot record (MBR). The Windows 10 UEFI parition layout looks like the following. In our case there is a recovery partition in between and therefor the primary partition (C:) cannot be extended. This happens because Windows 10 creates the recovery partition after your primary partition so it can easily be extended. Blocked because you can only extend your existing partition with unallocated space directly to the right of the partition you want to extend. More often than not, the partition you want to extend is blocked by a Recovery Partition. Primary Partition blocked by Recovery Partition #
However in a non lab environment things might look a little different. After extending the VHDX you just need to go into Disk Management and expand your partition.
Since Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows 8.1 this is even possible while the VM is running. In such cases it comes in handy that you can simply extend the existing virtual hard disk. When you are working with Visual Machines (VMs) and fixed hard disks it can happen that you run out of space.
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