Recovery partition take too much space
Do you think the recovery partition on your hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state
drive (SSD) is taking up your disk space? You can actually copy recovery partition
to USB drive and delete recovery
partition to free up space. If you have a small HDD or SSD, disk space is
more precious.
After running Windows 10/8/7 for a long while, Windows update, system files, page
files, installed programs, and your personal files may have use a lot of your disk
space. Besides Windows recovery partition, some brands of computers have a factory
recovery partition (also called OEM recovery partition), which will usually consume
more than 10GB of free space.
Factory recovery partition
Most of the Asus, HP, Dell and Lenovo desktops and laptops have a factory recovery
partition. The manufacturer put a compressed image file of the original system in
the recovery partition with recovery options included. If your system crashes, you
can press a specific key at startup to use the recovery option and restore your
computer to factory settings.
You probably do not want to simply remove the factory recovery partition to free up
disk space because you may need it to restore your computer after some unexpected
system issues. In that case, you can copy the recovery disk to USB drive and then
delete the recovery partition made by the manufacturer.
What about Windows recovery partition?
Windows
recovery partition only take a few hundred MBs of disk space, and you can view
them in Windows Disk Management. In Windows 10, the recovery partition is about
450MB, 200MB in Windows 8/8.1, and 100MB in Windows 7.
You can create a Windows 10 recovery USB disk and then it will give you an option to
delete the recovery partition. When your computer needs fixing, you can boot your
computer from the recovery USB drive and use the recovery options to repair your
PC.
Clone factory recovery partition
To clone the recovery partition, you can use disk partition manager software AOMEI
Partition Assistant. It is free and easy to use. Besides, it allows you to delete
Windows recovery partition or factory recovery partition and then add
the unallocated space to your system partition. Let’s take Asus computer as
an example.
Clone Asus recovery partition to USB drive:
1. Download this free
software. Here AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is recommended because it is free
and easy to use.
2. Open this freeware. In its main interface, right click
on the Recovery Partition and select “Copy Partition”. As you can see, it provide a
Disk Copy feature. If you need to uprade your hard drive to SSD or larger HDD without reinstalling, that option is very helpful.

3. In a pop up window, select Copy Partition Quickly. You
can also select Sector-by-Sector Copy if you like, but it will take more time and
space because it will also copy unused space on the recovery partition.

4. Select an unallocated partition as the Destination
Space. If your USB drive has no unallocated space, you can resize a partition on the
USB disk or delete a partition to generate unallocated space.

5. Drag your mouse pointer to resize partition. You can
keep it or adjust it to full size in accordance with your needs. When every
preparation is completed, click Finish.

6. Back to the main screen, click “Apply” to apply these
steps.

In a short while, it will finishing copying the recovery partition. After that, you
can right click on the recovery partition and select “Delete Partition” to remove
the recovery partition. Besides saving the compressed factory image, you can also create a system imageof your current Windows system to external hard drive.