Without leaving Windows 10: by following these steps you can delete the recovery partition from a hard drive

Perhaps on some occasion you have found yourself faced with the need to use an external hard drive that has belonged to a PC that has passed on to a better life or that a storage unit with the one that expand the capacity of your equipment

When connecting it, it saw that the free capacity is less than the total it should have, something that doesn't change even if you format it. In that case you may have some partition established or even some partition for recovery, something that is not a problem but that can leave more than important space unused.A handicap that can be solved by following these steps.

Steps to follow

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The first step is to access the box Execute for which it is more practical to use the key combination Win+R. Once we have entered and always with the disk that we want to manage connected, we write the command diskpart."

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The command console is then opened and in it we must take a series of steps in order to access exactly the partition that we want to delete. The first command to type is list disk to access the disks that we have connected to the computer."

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We select the disk that interests us, which for this occasion is disk number one and to do so we must use the command select disk 1 where the number corresponds to the disk we want to use."

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We select the disk in question and now what we want is to know which are the partitions that house said disk. In this case we are going to write list partition and the system returns the number of partitions enabled."

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In this case we want to end the partition destined for possible disk restoration, the one with the smallest size, so we write delete partition override ."

If we now go back to the system management tool, we can see that the partition that was previously labeled OEM is already free, but we find that we have two partitions on a single hard drive, something that may not be useful to you.Grouping them is very easy.

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The first thing we have to do is directly enter the device tool that we were already in before and click with the right mouse button on the trackpad or mouse on the partition or space that we want to expand to access the menu dropdown options. Among all the options we choose Extend>the two partitions have become one"