Recovering a lost Dell recovery partition: a complete guide

Your Dell recovery partition is missing? This may be caused by accidental deletion or unassigned drive letters. This tutorial will guide you to easily and effectively recover lost Dell recovery partitions.

Problem: Dell recovery partition is lost

A recovery partition is a special partition on the system hard disk that is used to restore the system to factory settings in case of a system failure. A recovery partition is a hidden partition that usually does not assign drive letters and is therefore not visible in File Explorer.

There are two types of cases where the Dell recovery partition is lost: First, because the recovery partition is not displayed in File Explorer, some users may mistakenly think that the recovery partition has disappeared. Second, the recovery partition is accidentally deleted by third-party disk management software or lost for other reasons.

In the event of a system failure, it is important to recover a lost Dell recovery partition. In the next section, we will show you how to restore a recovery partition in Windows 10.

How to restore Dell recovery partition

Method 1: Add drive letters to the hidden recovery partition

If you want the Dell recovery partition to appear in File Explorer, you can manually assign it a drive letter.

Step 1. In the Windows Search box, type cmd and click Run as administrator from the right-click menu.

Step 2. In the command line window, type the following commands in order. After each command, you need to press Enter .

• diskpart
• list volume
• select volume * (* \ represents the number of the recovery partition)
• assign letter=D (You need to replace D with a drive letter that is not used by other drives)

Step 3. Now you can go to File Explorer and check if the Dell recovery partition is displayed. If it does not appear, you need to check that the command line is correct and then repeat these steps to display the recovery partition.

Method 2: Use Partition Manager to restore lost Dell recovery partitions

If the Dell recovery partition is deleted or lost, it cannot be restored using CMD. In this case, to recover a deleted Dell recovery partition, you need to seek the help of Professional Partition Manager. The MiniTool Partition Wizard is highly recommended here.

MiniTool Partition Wizard can help recover deleted/lost partitions and their data without causing any corruption to the files. Additionally, it is fully compatible with Windows 11/10/8/7.

Step 1. Download, install and start MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. On its main interface, click the Register button to register. Then click the Partition Recovery option.

Step 2. Click Next .

Step 3. In the new window, select the disk where the Dell recovery partition is lost and click Next .

Step 4. Select the scan range from Full Disk , Unallocated Space , and Specified Range , and click Next , according to the on-screen instructions.

Step 5. Select the scan method and click Next .

Step 6. Make sure that all required partitions are selected, including existing and missing partitions, and then click Finish . Finally, click the Apply button.

Now the deleted Dell recovery partition and its data should be restored.

Conclusion

In summary, this tutorial explains how to use the diskpart command line and MiniTool Partition Wizard to resolve the "Dell recovery partition loss" issue.

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