How do I reassign recovery Partition Drive letter Or remove partition?

[park_ridge_dave]

I just bought a new Spectre X360 convertible. I am trying to use Laplink PCMover PRO to move my programs etc. from my old PC. But when I get to the part where I tell it to transfer it tells me there is not enough room for my drive D:. The recovery partition is named D:.

What I have done so far:

1.) I made a recovery USB drive using Windows 10 Disk Management software. (I thought that that software would enable me to delete the recovery partition after the copy but it did not do that).

2.) I have tried to delete the partition using Windows 10 Disk Management but that is not an option.

All I want to do is delete the recovery drive 😧 (I have the recovery USB Drive) and create a new 😧 drive partition.

Does anybody know what I am missing here?

Also, who was the person that chose 😧 as the recovery partition??? (was it some competitor??? (LOL)

Thanks in advance,

Dave

[WAWood]

@park_ridge_dave:  You don't really NEED a drive letter assigned to the Recovery partition,  so what you should be able to do is go into Disk Management and Remove the drive letter.  After that, PCMover Pro should not even see the partition.

Good Luck

[park_ridge_dave]

Yes, this is the very latest Spectre x360 13-4195dx and it comes with Windows 10 (64 bit). This was not an upgrade from Windows 8.  I bought this box for my wife to replace a very tired Lenovo.

I found it really curious that they (HP) would set the recovery partition as the 😧 drive.

The Windows Disk Management software doesn't allow me to rename the partition to say R:.

I have made my Recovery USB drive so I will probably just get out my "Partition Magic" and delete the Recovery Partition and re-assign the 😧 drive designator to the rebuilt drive.

OBTW I have Windows 10 running (about a month so far) on my MACBook using Parallels and it simply "Smokes" it is so fast (32gig memory and 980GB SSD). No major "glitches"yet. That was an upgrade from Windows 7.

Thanks,

Dave

[park_ridge_dave · Accepted solution]

I read on some other posts that the "F11" recovery looked for a particular drive letter, so I was reluctant to unassign the drive designation  letter. I have made my Recovery USB drive so I will just delete the partition. I don't really like having all my recovery options on a HDD that will someday crash (LOL). 

Thanks,

Dave

[JimB999]

*How did you "just delete the partition" without Disk Management? Using Disk Management I cannot delete, resize, or change the letter. I want to unlock the D drive. Do not want to pay for software that <might> work.

- More info -

Just got the new Spectre x360. It's working well. I just want a bigger D drive (i.e., ~250 for C (system) and ~250 for D (data)). I now have an E drive for data and did reassigned HD space. I also did format D, but still have a small D drive. I can't resize the D drive and want the D drive to be my data drive. I’m OK with the recovery data being gone.

However, it bothers me to have a small D drive (too small for data) and would be nice to recover the HD-disk space used by the D drive. Disk Management can't do that since the D drive is locked. AND, it’s not worth my time to wipe the full HD (C, D, and E drives now) and start over. I just want control over my D drive. It is my computer? Maybe?

[CherylG]

@JimB999 Actually the correct answer to the original question, imo, would have been to use HP Recovery Manager to make  Recovery Media and/or use it to remove the Recovery partition. Check Figure 2-Recovery Manager-Standard.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05336119 (Link Updated 04/25/2017)

Sorry, I really don't have an answer for your problem after the fact. Unless maybe HP Recovery Manager can still delete it.