windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

re: windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

Dan Rey — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:04:05 GMT

JJ - see info about creating a USB Recovery Drive. I used Disk Manager to shrink the partition by 3600 mb, created a partition and formatted it FAT32. I then copied everything back from the RecoveryImage directory. I tested the Refresh your PC without affecting your files, the Remove everything and reinstall Windows and created my USB Recovery drive (but I would suggest starting with creating the USB Recovery Drive!)

re: windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

JJ Streicher-Bremer — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:02:24 GMT

So, I backup this partition and recover the space. What procedure do I need to follow to recover/restore my surface? I know on my Acer W510 there was an automated process of creating a bootable USB device with the recovery media and this worked to recover the tablet.

How does this translate here for the Surface RT?

re: windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

Dan Rey — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:41:02 GMT

Pierre - the partition is used as part of the recovery options for Windows RT. Excellent point, Steve (this is an advanced tip and I will be editing it to reflect that).

re: windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

Steve Beaumont — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:11:03 GMT

if you're asking the question of what that partition was used for and the drawbacks of deleting it, please don't delete it as you especially will likely need it at some point!

This tip should only be used by those that know exactly what they're doing and know how to manually recover a Windows RT device in the event of (software) failure.

re: windows rt tip: regain an extra 3.5 gb of space

Pierre — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:20:15 GMT

What was that partition used for? what are the drawbacks of deleting it?