Shrinking a recovery partition in WIN 10

Question

_{Saturday, July 22, 2017 2:40 AM}

I just installed a new SSD of 120 GB and once formatted it now has a recovery partition of 63.25 GB.  How can I reduce this to 500 MB or so?

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, July 25, 2017 12:15 AM}

Open Disk Management

Select the partition

Right click on it and choose Shrink Volume

If the above doesn't help then you need third party software. 

S.Sengupta, Windows Insider MVP

_{Tuesday, July 25, 2017 8:16 AM}

You could shrink this 63.25GB partition, right-click start menu button and select Disk Management, right-click this partition and select Shrink Volume, enter a size in Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB, note the Size of available space in MB, this is the biggest size you could shrink.

In your scenario, you need a 500MB space recovery partition, so the number you need to enter in Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB box is the number of Size of available shrink space in MB subtracting 500MB.

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_{Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:20 AM}

Would you mind letting me know the update of the problem? If you need further assistance, feel free to let me know. I will be more than happy to be of assistance.

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