To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...

So the GF needed a new laptop and so we buy a nice Huawei Matebook. A while in, I notice the 1tb drive, besides EFI and recovery partitions, has an 80gb C: "Windows" partition and a "Data" partition.

If you cannot boot into Windows Recovery Environment, use the fixes provided below: Check the status of the Windows Recovery Environment Use other methods to enter the Windows Recovery Environment ...

Most Windows computers contain at least one hidden partition that's invisible when you browse your computer's hard drive. Windows often creates a hidden system partition it uses during startup, and ...

If you have a computer running Windows 11, the day will come when you may have to upgrade the hard drive because it's running out of space or reaching the end of its lifespan (usually three to five ...

One beef against Microsoft’s Surface devices is that they have less usable disk space than the advertised disk size would indicate, but there is a relatively easy way to free up as much 7GB of disk ...

When installing Windows on a computer that already houses an existing Windows copy, you may run into an error where Windows fails to format the partition. The full ...

When I built this PC, I partitioned the SSD with the anticipation of perhaps dual booting. That never came to pass, and what I did allocate for Windows is really much too small for my needs. So, I'd ...