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CAUTION: Only do this if you know what you're doing ...
I use this to save space on my virtual machines. Removing the recovery partitions makes it that recovering from a damaged setup, or resetting to default settings, quite a challenge. So really: only do this if you know what you're doing!
Open command prompt as Administrator and start "diskpart".
Make sure to find the proper partition, by first listing and selecting the disk and partition, and finally delete the recovery partition.
An example (my recovery partition is partition 4 on disk 0):
diskpart lits disk select disk 0 list partiton select partition 4 delete partition override exit
This is what this looked like on my computer:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1265] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Administrator> diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.22621.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: VMWARE-WIN11LIT DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 64 GB 1024 KB * DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 101 MB Partition 3 Primary 63 GB 117 MB Partition 4 Recovery 571 Mb 63 GB DISKPART> select partition 4 Partition 4 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> delete partition override DiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition. DISKPART> Exit
