Previous recovery drive can't be accessed

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ElPelado

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Hi all
So I have a partition that I think was created during a previous windows installation (XP i think). Up until a couple of days ago, it was inaccessible from my current windows 10.
Now I can access the partition, which size is 800Mb, but I see that half of it is in use (I think by the recovery data).
The problem is that those 400Mb are not visible in windows (nor in a command window).
Is there any way to access it (and delete it, since is for a previous installation)?
 

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Once you delete that partition, you should be able to extend that into the adjoining partition and use for extra storage. Show a screenshot of what you see in disk management. So we can actually see whats going on.
 
Here it is
Another question - before I just delete it, is there any way to access it and see what's stored there?
 

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Well its not a hidden partition, it has a drive letter so you should be able to access it by clicking on the drive in explorer. Then you can use disk management to delete that partition and then merge it with either E or F drive
 
johnb35 said:
Well its not a hidden partition, it has a drive letter so you should be able to access it by clicking on the drive in explorer. Then you can use disk management to delete that partition and then merge it with either E or F drive
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That is was I am trying to say. It is already visible, but when I open it, as you see in my first post, it appears empty, but it is not, it is half full. So how can i see what is inside it?
 
Do you wish to see whats inside, or just delete it and move on?

If its the later then, load command prompt in admin mode:

Type: diskpart

Diskpart will open in a new CLI

Type: list disk
Type: select disk X

where X being the disk number you wish to make empty. Don't mess that up.

then, with the correct disk selected type

clean all

let it finish and close command prompt/diskpart.

You'll then be able to access all of the disk and create new partition(s) in Disk Management in windows.

If you want to view the partition's contents, you may be able to do that with a boot USB and tools like Hirens, but that's a whole other method.
 
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