How can I delete what was the recovery partition on a hard drive I no longer have Windows on?

Hi , Catană

I am Ivan, I will help you with this.

In this case, it would be a better option to delete all partitions along with the disk using DIskpart, check if you have xbox games on the HD drive

1. Opening the command prompt Right-click on the Windows icon and select “Run as administrator.”
2. Typing commands in CMD

Type diskpart and press “Enter.”

Type “list disk” and press “Enter.”

It will show all the disk drives including the external drives connected to the system.

Type “select disk + disk number”

Place the drive you want to format, be careful not to place the wrong disk based on the amount of free space.

Type “clean” to start cleanup of files and folders of the selected hard disk.

Type “create partition primary” and press “Enter.”

creating partition primary

Type “format fs=ntfs” after DiskPart successfully created the specific partition.

It commands the DiskPart to format the disk to specific file system

The last step is to assign the drive letter to the newly created partition by typing

“assign.”

After run on comand: "active"

After formatting the disk and restarting the computer, open the xbox app go to settings > installation options and Change the location to install and see if the X: drive option is selected.

Remembering this method will format drive E: pay attention not to format the wrong drive using diskpart.

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Thanks

Try it in an Admin Command Prompt...

(1) Type CMD into Search, then click "Run as Administrator".

(2) Enter the following commands...

DiskPart <<<Enter DiskPart

Select Disk 1 <<<Focus on Disk 1

List Part <<<Show its partitions

Select Part x <<<Focus on the MSR (16 or 128 MB) if it exists

Delete Partition Override <<<Delete it

Select Part y <<<Focus on the 532 MB partition

Delete Partition Override <<<Delete it

List Part <<<Show the partition(s) are gone

Exit <<<Leave DiskPart

Reboot to be sure the whole system knows what happened.

Notes:

(a) Instead of x, use the partition number of the MSR which likely is 16 MB but may be 128 MB.

(b) Instead of y, use the partition number of your 532 MB partition.

(c) Here is my List Part...

The MSR (Microsoft Reserved) partition is a top-secret partition that belongs in a UEFI Windows installation. But it won't show up in Disk Management. It can also block the extend you want to do.

Try it in an Admin Command Prompt...

(1) Type CMD into Search, then click "Run as Administrator".

(2) Enter the following commands...

DiskPart <<<Enter DiskPart

Select Disk 1 <<<Focus on Disk 1

List Part <<<Show its partitions

Select Part x <<<Focus on the MSR (16 or 128 MB) if it exists

Delete Partition Override <<<Delete it

Select Part y <<<Focus on the 532 MB partition

Delete Partition Override <<<Delete it

List Part <<<Show the partition(s) are gone

Exit <<<Leave DiskPart

Reboot to be sure the whole system knows what happened.

Notes:

(a) Instead of x, use the partition number of the MSR which likely is 16 MB but may be 128 MB.

(b) Instead of y, use the partition number of your 532 MB partition.

(c) Here is my List Part...

The MSR (Microsoft Reserved) partition is a top-secret partition that belongs in a UEFI Windows installation. But it won't show up in Disk Management. It can also block the extend you want to do.

Attempting to perform 'delete partition override' on the Recovery partition results in this error: "The specified command or parameters are not supported on this system.", JUST LIKE I SAID in my post.

Is there no way to fix this issue without losing 600 GB worth of data? I don't own an external hard drive to back it up, and I don't have cloud storage.

Also, this is what's showing up in the properties of the hard drive, and the red icons in the partition manager have increased in number from 3 to 7.