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Reclaiming a disk'€™s recover partition space.

Windows 7Occasionally we make use of an old ATA or SATA disk that has previously been used as the main disk in a laptop, that has long died and gone, by placing it in a small portable case.

Then we usually reformat the disk to make it generally available.  There are occasions when there are system or recovery partitions present upon the disk and these situations it is convenient to wish to clean off all the ‘old’ unwanted data off of the disk.  The present of the system and/or recovery partitions normally means some special technique has to be employed to recover the space that these areas occupy.

One can always purchase a third party product to perform this task, but why should one when a perfectly useful utility is provided with Windows 7.

The command line utility ‘diskpart’  manages the task very easily.  All that is required is to select the disk we wish to ‘modify’, then display the partitions and ensure that it is indeed the correct disk. (After all you do not want to modify the live machine disk!)  Once sure we are 'on the correct disk, select the partition, and then delete the partition specifying the [noerr] and [overide] parameters.  Job done.  Now we can create a single large partition for the whole disk and use it as we please.

See the documentation via the link above for more information.

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