How To Clear Recovery D Drive

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Delete the Recovery drive if you never want to have the ability to repair Windows. If you're fine with that, go right ahead. You're probably making disk images overnight so you won't use the Recovery drive anyway, right?

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Sarcasm is rarely effective over the internet. I'm still confused. So what is it helpful for besides repairing windows? Why would I ever need to repair windows?

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It is useful if your windows is corrupted and cannot start (due to files corrupted or hard drive failure). You should create recover discs before removing the recovery partition.

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I'll try to answer all 5 of your questions here,
Should you get rid of it? If it houses your recovery files, probably not. But if you create a recovery usb drive, then yes, you can delete it if you really need that space. To create a recovery drive, get an 8GB USB flash drive handy and then type "create recovery" into your search box, click on "create recovery drive" and it will guide you through how to do it. If you format D:, yes, that erases everything on that partition. How to get rid of it? If you've created an external recovery USB drive, here's how:
Right click your Windows start button and click "Disk Management". On the bottom half of that screen, right-click the D: partition and click "Delete Volume". That will turn it green and now it will say "free space" on it. Right-click it again, and click "Delete Partition", and it will go from green to black and say "unallocated". Now right-click on your C: drive and select "Extend Volume", and in the wizard just type in the maximum space/total volume left, and your C: drive will extend to fill that space. I'd still recommend keeping D:, but if you really need the space and have created a recovery USB drive, go for it. Until then, deleting D: would be a very bad idea. What else is it helpful for? If you don't use it for recovery, you can store backups on it or files you want to keep separate from your C: drive. Why would you ever need to repair Windows? Because stuff just breaks sometimes. Go to the search bar on this site and type in "lost files" or "BSOD" (blue screen of death) and see how many pages of results you get. Congrats on the new computer; protect it by getting an external hard drive or large volume USB drive and make running backups your new habit. Hope that helps. Cheers.

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