How to Delete EFI Partition (ESP) / System Partition / Recovery Partition on Windows 11

This Win11 tutorial explains how to remove EFI system partition, ESP, on your SSD or hard drive, remove system partition or recovery partition using Windows 11, it can be removed when a drive is used to store data and files and no longer contain a used Windows OS installation, very smart to clean unused partitions when you put your drives to new uses.

NOTE: EFI System Partition is essential for booting your operating system. Don't delete the EFI or other system partitions on the disk that contains your Windows installation, as it is necessary for booting, only delete EFI on secondary or media storage drives that no longer has windows installed on it. Recovery partition if active contains important files to recover the system if it has failure so do that only on extra storage drive and not main windows os drive.

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Thanks for watching!

[Cakeytoo]

I was missing the override in my command line
Thanks continue making videos like this bro!

[TheTeflon]

Excellent, straight to the point, worked like a charm. Thanks!

[joannothing]

Thanks for the video, it worked perfectly.

[_mike]

I got the virtual disk service error. What can I do next?

[alexmirrow]

i am so thankful, i had some issues trying to extend volums in a ssd where i seted windows and i couldnt recover a linux partition

[slamminx]

Doesn't work for me. It says "Virtual Disk Service error: Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume." when I try to delete it

[jawadhussain]

Able to remove system partitions while using another OS 👌❤

[mekabirb]

Thanks. I have my storage back and without reinstalling windows just to delete linux :D

[Camille_Gugu]

Hello, someone reformat my laptop and accidentally use the hdd as a boot or primary drive. I have sdd. What can I do?

[hikaru_hajime]

please help me i just restarted my laptop for the 22h2 update and the update failed and now theres a e drive called esp im scared

[Xaxxus]

is there a way to delete reserved partitions from Disk Management?

[beardalaxy]

i can't seem to find a straight answer for this anywhere and i'm getting some conflicting info
if i delete one partition (and efi partition) using this method, will it erase the contents of my other partitions? some people say it will and some say it won't.

[jnnysnny]

that part about keeping space unallocated for SSD's to make it last longer is a myth more than anything else. just mentioning that, good video nontheless mate.

[govii]

Now I'm at the boot screen, how to recover 😶

[JamesDean-vluf]

Driving me crazy even after I did all the steps it's telling me partition 0 cannot be deleted I was trying to clone the original hard drive to m.2 didn't so so I reallocated the m.2 except for that partition 0 won't delete Even after I follow your steps to the letter