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We now have a partition that can host the Windows Recovery EnvironmentВ (WinRE). Windows recognizes the recovery partition by the static unique id de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac and the GPT attribute bit 0x8000000000000001.ДiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.ДISKPART> format quick fs=ntfs label='Recovery tools'ДiskPart successfully formatted the volume.ДiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.ДISKPART> set id='de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac'ДiskPart successfully set the partition ID.ДISKPART> gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001ДiskPart successfully assigned the attributes to the selected GPT partition.

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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.Д®xpanded 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.ДiskPart successfully deleted the selected partition. Please wait while DiskPart scans your configuration.ДiskPart has finished scanning your configuration. You can delete the recovery parition with DISKPARTВ 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.

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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.В 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.

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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. To expand the size of the main Windows volume, we will have to delete the recovery partition to the right of it, extend the volume and recreate the recovery partition.When you are working with Visual Machines (VMs) and fixed hard disks it can happen that you run out of space. In my case, the bootloader is on the EFI partition:

Windows Boot Manager (it indicates the partition where the BCD bootloader is located).

Please pay attention to the following sections: To check the active recovery partition, run the command: For example, you can assign a drive letters E: and R: using the the Disk Management or Diskpart.exe: select disk 0 -> select part 1 -> assign letter r. To understand, which of them is used by Windows as an active recovery partition, you must assign the drive letters to your partitions. On the screenshot, you can see that there are two recovery partitions ( Recovery and Windows RE).

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