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Senturion86
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December 26th, 2015 09:00
Dell Recovery Partition
Hello,
I am trying to either remove or shrink my Dell Recovery partition. The recovery partition is 14 gb, even though there are ~6GB of used space. I have a Dell Venue 8 Pro with 32GB of storage, so space is kind of necessary. I have attempted to run diskpart and run "DELETE PARTITION OVERRIDE" after selecting the disk (disk 0) and the partition (part 4). First, it will not delete from within Windows, stating that it can't be removed. I then do the same from the advanced recovery tools in the command prompt - and the partition is removed. However, as soon as the partition is removed, the system will no longer boot. I honestly don't really want to remove this partition as it is nice to recover Windows from it if needed without having to boot to my Dell recovery thumb drive (given to me from Dell).
What have others found to work well? I simply either don't want the partition or I want it shrunk in size, but every time that I remove the partition in safe mode the tablet will not even boot. What am I doing wrong?
Senturion86
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Posted December 30th, 2015 11:00
vtoy116,
Unfortunately, this is what my disk partitions look like:
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On computer: JONSTABLET
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 29 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 14 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list part
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 128 MB 101 MB
Partition 3 Primary 14 GB 229 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 14 GB 14 GB
DISKPART>
I have tried deleting this partition with delete partition override after typing select disk 0 and select part 4, but it says it can't:
DISKPART> select part 4
Partition 4 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> delete part override
Virtual Disk Service error:
Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile,
crashdump or hibernation volume.
DISKPART>Senturion86,
At this point, I am not sure how else to help but to send my DISKPART results in hope that it may help..
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ----
Disk 0 Online 29 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 58 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list part
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 OEM 40 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 541 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 490 MB 669 MB
Partition 5 Primary 23 GB 1159 MB
Partition 6 Recovery 4712 MB 24 GB
DISKPART>
vtoy116
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Posted December 27th, 2015 18:00
Hi,
I believe you are trying to delete the wrong partition. Also, I don't know why your recovery partition is so big. On my Dell Venue 8 Pro there are two recovery partitions, the one you want is Partition 6 which is about 4.7GB. Partition 4 is the other recovery partition which is about 490MB. The Diskpart commands are:
select disk 0
select partition 6
delete partition override
select partition 5
extend
exit
Selecting partition 5 and extend merges the space into the Primary partition. Use the Diskpart list command to see a list of your partitions. Hope this helps.