Delete Healthy Recovery Partition on Windows 10

I wanted to expand a disk partition, but the free space was blocked by a small Healthy recovery partition, which could not be deleted by graphical Disk Management utility. A few search reveals diskpart Windows utility is a rescuer.

This is a link to original post. Below is a reference for my future use.

1. Open a command prompt as administrator.

2. Run Diskpart application by typing diskpart in the command prompt.

3. In the “diskpart” prompt, enter rescan command and press Enter key to re-scan all partitions, volumes and drives available.

4. Then type in list disk and press Enter key to show all hard disk drive available.

5. Select the disk that contains the partition you want to remove. Normally, with just 1 hard disk, it will be disk 0. So the command will be:

Select disk 0

Finish by Enter key.

6. Type list partition and press Enter key to show all available and created partition in the disk selected.

7. Select the partition that wanted to be deleted by using the following command, followed by Enter key:

Select partition x

Where x is the number of the recovery partition to be removed and unlocked its space. Be careful with the number of this partition, as wrong number may get data wipes off.

8. Finally, type in delete partition override and press Enter key.