Acer w4 820 how to remove recovery partition

brijesh1701
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everyone says that you simply do a recovery drive from the windows options, and at the end the system asks if you want to delete that recovery partition on the disk. After confirming the deletion you then go to disk management and extend the drive C to the space previously occupied by the recovery partition.
But is seems that ACER DISABLED THAT OPTION and not only the option of deleting the recovery partition doesn’t show up, if you delete the partition and extend C with an external software, the system goes crazy when you reboot it again.
So, does anyone knows how to do this?

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  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    First: are you certain you have a full recovery partition (it is about 5GB), if not the option will not be there.

    You can use DiskMgmt.msc to see.

     

    Personally, first I pull a full system image backup, then I create the recovery drive (this takes two flash drives, one at least as large as the SDD for the image, and another at least 8 gb for the recovery drive. They cannot be the same drive).

     

    Then I use the option to remove the recovery partition if one is present. I do not just delete it. Windows then automagically reallocates the free space.

     

    I do not know about a W4 specifically but have done on other systems.

     

    BTW a typical Windows disk will have three partitions, a 100MB for boot (EFI), 350 or 400 MB for recovery (this is not the full recovery partition and may confuse some) and the multiGB system (C) partition.

     

    Does anyone here have a DSKMGMT screenshot showing the 5GB recovery partition for reference ? I neglected to take one.

     

    ps this is not the same as WIMBOOT, that is something completely different and may not be deleted.

     

    For more information see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

  • brijesh1701
    brijesh1701 Member Posts: 6 New User

    i confirm my w4 have about 6 gb of recovery partition.

     

    ok now tell me how to remove (not just delete) the partition...?

     

    thanks for your reply.

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    See section 7 in the URL I posted.

     

    BTW this is a Microsoft function. Acer has nothing to do with it.

     

    I would like to see a DiskMgmt screen shot showing the recover partition so I can see how it is organized.

  • brijesh1701
    brijesh1701 Member Posts: 6 New User
    http://i.imgur.com/vE6XApy.jp
  • brijesh1701
    brijesh1701 Member Posts: 6 New User
    http://imgur.com/Dtb5WZW
    http://imgur.com/ftUSaFm
  • brijesh1701
    brijesh1701 Member Posts: 6 New User
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  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    Thank you. In a UEFI system there will always be (at least) three partitions, EFI, System, and Recovery. If the system disc (C) is WimBoot then the recovery partition cannot be changed. If it is not WimBoot then the recovery partition can be mostly recovered by Windows and if so will be reduced to 500 MB but cannot be removed completely.

     

    So three cases:

    500 MB recovery partion

    5-7GB recovery partition with C drive having WIMBOOT

    5-7GB recovery partition C NOT having WimBoot <- only one that can be recovered/reduced to the first case.

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