

So to some extent, it is not harmful to system booting and you don’t need to delete it. Recovery partition, as its name implies, allows you to restore Windows OS to a certain state. The Recovery Partition size is about 450MB or 500MB for Windows 10 (200MB for Windows 8/8.1 and 100MB for Windows 7). When you install Windows 10 on a GPT disk, you’ll get a Recovery Partition (System Reserved Partition on MBR disk) and an EFI system partition without a drive letter. What is Recovery drive in your Windows 10? What is the Recovery partition and how come you get it? What can you do about that drive? Everything about the Windows 10 450MB Recovery partition will be introduced in the next part. It is a help post on Recovery Drive is full in Windows 10.

Can I remove it? If not, how can I increase the partition space? I just don’t want to see the prompting any more. I can see there is G:\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim inside the drive with the help of disk cleanup. I checked that partition which is a 450MB drive with 400MB in use.

Windows keeps prompting me that the ‘partition G:\’ is full. “So I updated my Windows 10 to the Spring Update 1803, and I get a new partition.
