Create Recovery Partition
#1. Create Recovery Partition Manually
First, verify there is no recovery partition.
- Open Disk Manager by right clicking the start menu, and choosing
Disk Manager. - Verify you don't already have a recovery partition created. They will typically be under 1GB and next to the health status will be labeled
(Recovery Partition). If there is one created, follow these instructions to delete the partition. - Open an admin command prompt and enter the following command to verify the recovery partition is disabled.
reagentc /infoIf the recovery partition is not disabled, run this command to disable it.
reagentc /disable - Using Disk Manager, choose and shrink the existing Windows partition to create space for the new recovery partition.
- In the
Shrinkoptions, in the "Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB:" field, enter 1024 and clickShrink. - Once there is now enough space on the C drive to create a recovery partition, open an admin command prompt and enter.
diskpart - List the disks within diskpart by typing the following command.
list disk - Select the disk that you edited the partition for in step 5 using the following command (replace the number with the correct disk).
select disk 0 - List the partitions on the chosen drive so you can select the partition you created in step 5 by using the following command.
list partition - Select the partition you created in step 5 by using the following command.
select partition 3 - Set the partition ID based on the type of disk it is with the following command.
For MBR disks:
set id=27For GPT disks:
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"The disk will have an asterisk under the Gpt column in the section you listed the disk if it is GPT.
For GPT disks, you will also have to set the GPT Attributes using the following command.
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001 - Exit diskpart and run the following command to enable the recovery partition.
reagentc /enable
#2. Create/Delete Recovery Partition while Creating Recovery Drive
There is another way to help you delete the partition. This trick appears during the process of creating a USB recovery drive.
- Click “Search” icon, and enter
recovery drivein the search box, and then selectCreate a recovery drive.
Depending on your version of Windows, it may be listed as simply "Recovery Drive".
- After the recovery drive tool opens, make sure the “Back up system files to the recovery drive” is selected, and then select Next.
- Insert a USB flash drive into your PC that's at least as large as the size indicated on the screen. Select the USB flash drive connected you connected and click “Next” to continue.
- Click “Create” to begin creating the recovery drive.
- When the process is done, do not select Finish. Select Delete the recovery partition to remove the recovery partition from your PC and free up disk space. Then click on Delete. This will free up the disk space used to store your recovery image. When the removal is done, select Finish.
Note✍: Some PCs do not provide an option to delete the recovery partition. If you encounter this situation, it means that your PC does not have a recovery partition that uses additional disk space.














