Windows Server 2022 - Delete Recovery Partition

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Likelihood of occurrence: Common

Cause of error: There is a recovery partition in our 2022 Image that needs to be deleted before you can expand the drive.

DANGER

PLEASE TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF THE VM BEFORE DOING THIS

Fix for issue:

Open CMD and run as Administrator

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DISKPART

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LIST DISK

WARNING

Ensure you do this step to ensure you're selecting the right Disk abd Partition

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SELECT DISK 0

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LIST PARTITION

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SELECT PARTITION 3

DANGER

AGAIN, please remember to take a snapshot - if you don't and this fix doesn't work - you will NEED to reimport the image - wasting many hours.

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DELETE PARTITION OVERRIDE