Malicious Methods

Delete Windows Recovery Partition

There are many reasons why one would want to delete the recovery partion on windows, It can be:

Want to use a thrid party recovery program
Have a recovery disk already and don't want overhead
Unable to increase windows C drive partition

Cons of removing this partition: The recovery partition is a special windows partition that is used to restore windows back to its factory settings by request in the windows recovery menu or in case of a system failure.

It is completely safe to remove the windows recovery partition as a recovery media can be created or a Windows Installation Medium can be used in case of disaster.

Steps to remove the partition:

Open windows command prompt or powershell as administrator.
Disable recovery enviroment:

reagentc /disable

Run diskpart command

diskpart

Check for the disk number that has the Recovery Partition. To check, Run

list disk

Select the correct disk

select disk NUMBER

Check for the partition number that is the Recovery Partition. To check, Run

list partition

Select the correct partition

select partition NUMBER

Delete the partition

delete partition override

Now the Windows Recovery Partition has been deleted and you can exit out of the terminal as no further action is needed.

How to install CertBot

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Method 1: Using snapd

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