Windows 8 Recovery Partition on Surface

[Ben Lehtovaara]

Now that I'm aware about the storage limitations on the Surface, how much space can I expect to regain on the Surface Pro by relocating the recovery partition?

I didn't get a Surface RT and some people are saying you will save 8 GB and others 20 GB. Anyone know for sure?

 

[Keith Wallace]

For sure? No. Allegedly, it is about 15 GB.

 

[futurix]

Somebody needs to go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management and tell us the size.

 

[Ben Lehtovaara]

Somebody needs to go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management and tell us the size.

Any surface RT owners care to do This? I guess a partition for W8 Pro would be bigger though.

 

[Dadstar0410]

I have a Surface RT 32GB, and when I booted it for the first time, it had 24GB free. So approximately 8GB are used from the stock apps, partition, and OS.

 

[Black Helicopter Steve]

Any surface RT owners care to do This? I guess a partition for W8 Pro would be bigger though.

You are correct, it won't be helpful. RT has 2 recovery partitions: one small 300mb partition and another 3.5gb one. (At least it does on mine) No way Pro uses that little amount of space.