How To Extend C: With Healthy Recovery Blocking It

[PentiumCore]

Hi

I reformatted a Windows 8 laptop for a friend using a W8 disk to make it a 100% clean install with no pre-installed junk.

I set the C: to 100GB and told him we'll extend it or set up a DATA drive as he needs it. (old thinking really.)

The problem is once I went into Disk Manager the hard drive showed up as such:

(1,00GB Healthy Recovery) (260MB Healthy EFI System Partition) (97,22GB NTFS) (450MB Healthy Recovery) (850GB Unallocated)

In disk manager it fails to let me delete the 450MB recovery partition that is sitting right in front of the C drive. It is just blanked out. I tried a few googled guides like using command prompt to force delete it but it does not allow me to which means I can't extend C: drive.

Any suggestions?

[PentiumCore]

Hi.

I've actually fixed it now. The guide that I was following told me to run as admin but I forgot to so it wasn't letting me unlock the partiton to delete it from Disk Manager.

The guide I followed is this one:

1. Open a command prompt as administrator.

2. Run Diskpart application by typing Diskpart in the command prompt.

3. In the “Diskpart” prompt, enter rescan command and press Enter key to re-scan all partitions, volumes and drives available.

4. Then type in list disk and press Enter key to show all hard disk drive available.

5. Select the disk that contains the partition you want to remove. Normally, with just 1 hard disk, it will be disk 0. So the command will be:

Select disk 0

Finish by Enter key.

6. Type list partition and press Enter key to show all available and created partition in the disk selected.

7. Select the partition that wanted to be deleted by using the following command, followed by Enter key:

Select partition x

Where x is the number of the recovery partition to be removed and unlocked its space. Be careful with the number of this partition, as wrong number may get data wipes off.

8. Finally, type in delete partition override and press Enter key.

The guide is part of this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... proinstall