Is it safe to delete recovery partition in Windows 10/11?įor an average user, I don’t recommend deleting the recovery partition on your windows machine. So in the event of any windows system-related issues, and you wanted to restore the windows machine to its original state, you can use the recovery option. That holds the windows recovery environment. The Windows operating system creates the extra Recovery Partition during the windows installation. The reason you are seeing the extend option grade out is that there is a recovery partition between the C drive and the unallocated space.Īs you can see below, I have already extended the virtual hard disk size in the backend of the hypervisor and you see the 20GB as unallocated space, and I am unable to extend C drive on my disk manager.Įven if you try to delete the partition in the middle, the windows default disk manager will not let you. So how do you still extend your hard disk, when the extend option is grayed out? Let’s take a look at that in this blog post. Once the physical or virtual hard disk is in place, you go to the device manager and extend the hard disk, very easy, isn’t it?īut what if you got to the device manager and realize that you are not seeing the option to extend the C drive, basically it is disabled or grayed out.

Your C drive is fully utilized and you decided to extend your hard disk, so if it is a physical box you will get a brand new hard disk and plugin to the system, or if it is a virtual machine, you extend the virtual hard disk.

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