We’ll cover two methods: using the command line tool diskutil, and using the GUI app Disk Utility.ĭeleting and merging a partition with diskutil from the command line There are a few ways to go about doing this, all methods will result in data loss which is the intention here, but I’ll point that out anyway. Delete the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Recovery HD Partition Your new partition is active.Finally, if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t muck around with partitions, diskutil, merging, or anything else, you could easily screw something up and lose all of your data.

Type in the name for your new partition in the Volume label field and select Next.

Select the letter you want to set for your partition from the dropdown menu, then click on Next.

Enter the amount of space you want to allocate in the new partition within the remaining unallocated space and click Next.

Right-click on the Unallocated partition and choose New Simple Volume option.

On the Start Menu, search for Create and format hard disk partition and open it.

You have to format the unallocated partition to use it. When you delete the recovery partition, it will make up an unallocated space on your drive.

Once you see the confirmation message, close the PowerShell window.

Type delete partition override and hit Enter.

For example: If recover partition is in Partition 4, type select partition 4 and press Enter.

Type select partition *partition number* where recovery partition is and hit Enter.

You’ll see a list of partitions on the disk.

Type in select disk * disk number * where the recovery partition is and hit Enter

You’ll see a list of disks on your system.

Allow permission to make changes to your device.

Right-click on the Start Menu and choose Windows Powershell (Admin).

How to remove recovery partition in Windows

Delete recovery partition