


I’m trying to upgrade a DELL laptop by replacing the 500GB HDD with a 120GB SSD. Check the Disk Management to see witch drive letter has been assigned to the recovery partition.If everything goes ok, you will receive the following message “ Diskpart successfully set the partition ID.Set the type of the hidden partition to 07.Remember the Type value, this will be handy if something goes wrong. Type DISKPART> detail partition and verify that it is hidden.Now, select the hidden partition (see step 1) DISKPART> select partition 1.List all partitions: DISKPART> list partition.Start DiskPart and select your disk: DISKPART> select disk 0.Start Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) on your computer and take a closer look at your hard disk.It was tested on a Windows Vista machine with a Basic disk.ĭiskPart command line syntax and parameters can be found on Microsoft documentation page.

This quick step guide describes how to unhide recovery partition on your hard drive.
