{"id":3562,"date":"2019-09-19T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2020-04-09T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:46:00","slug":"windows-system-recovery-partition-after-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2019\/09\/windows-system-recovery-partition-after-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows | System &#8220;Recovery Partition&#8221; After Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Windows 10 or Windows Server (2016\/2019) upgrade a new system &#8220;recovery partition&#8221; gets created at the tailend of the C:\\ this isn&#8217;t usually a problem for physical machines but for VM it can cause some issues if you wish to &#8220;extend&#8221; the VDMK\/Partition size.<\/p>\n<p>You can quickly remove the partition using &#8220;diskpart&#8221; and continue your extend. From what I&#8217;ve seen this shouldn&#8217;t cause any major issues. To be honest we rarely use any of the Windows features for restores as snapshot and backup usually fix them.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">diskpart\r\nlist disk \r\nselect disk X\r\nlist partition \r\nselect partition X\r\ndelete partition override\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Before:<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>After:<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Windows 10 or Windows Server (2016\/2019) upgrade a new system &#8220;recovery partition&#8221; gets created at the tailend of the C:\\ this isn&#8217;t usually a problem for physical machines but for VM it can cause some issues if you wish to &#8220;extend&#8221; the VDMK\/Partition size. You can quickly remove the partition using &#8220;diskpart&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-server-2016","category-windows-server-2019"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-Vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}