Free more storage space on Surface Pro: Delete Win8 Recovery Partition

At the time of Surface Pro North America, Microsoft officially explained the Surface Pro storage space:

In this form, you might think that the storage capacity of the Surface Pro 64GB version is too small. But in fact, you can do some simple work to free up some Windows 8 storage space – the most effective one is to remove the recovery space reserved by Windows 8. Next, the specific method:

& ldquo; disk management & rdquo; to delete the system recovery space

1. Release the space of the system recovery tool, The easiest way to do this is to go to “Control Panel>->“Administrative Tools”->“Computer Management”-> Left & Disk Disk Management”-> Approximately 7.8 GB of recovery partition (instead of 600MB), right-click on it and select Delete Volume 

2. Right-click C:, select “Extended Volume", click directly to “ Next step & nbsp; until the completion.

However, the problem with this is: If your system is experiencing problems, you want to use the "Keep and Reset" system that comes with Windows 8 to quickly recover the system, since the recovery partition has been deleted, the system You will be asked to insert recovery media to use “Refresh and Reset”.

The Surface Pro team talked about Reddit's Q&A session, why not provide a Surface Pro recovery USB stick, and choose the default hard drive recovery partition:

“We could have Do this (referring to the recovery disk), but you may lose this recovery USB stick. So we give you the option to free up storage space with tools and make a new recovery drive. ”

 Create recovery drive> to delete system recovery space

The next step to remove Surface Pro recovery partition method will be more secure, but the prerequisites need to be prepared At least 8GB USB flash drive, and its data will be fully formatted:

1.Windows 8 start screen or press Win+W keyboard shortcut, “Settings>;Search“Recovery” or “Restore&rdquo ;, find “ create a recovery drive & rdquo;, run;

2. Check "Copy the recovery partition from the computer to the recovery drive", the next step;

3. Select the drive to save the recovery partition, the next step;

4. The entire format and copy recovery partition process takes about 15 minutes;

5. After completion, The recovery drive will ask if it is “delete the recovery partition”, click “Delete Recovery Partition” at the bottom, and click “Delete” in the following interface to release about 7.8GB of storage:

6. After doing this, Surface Pro can be upgraded from 29.8GB to 37.4GB Space, in addition to keep the recovery drive.

Viewing applications that use more storage

In addition to removing the Microsoft-prepared recovery partitions in Surface Pro, you can also free up space by uninstalling less commonly used Windows Store apps. :

1. First, set –> Change PC Settings-> General –> View Application Size> Check the application's occupied storage size in < Win+C –> Br>

2. Then uninstall the unwanted apps on the Windows 8 start screen

For Surface Pro and Surface RT, you can also extend the storage in three ways: 1) SkyDrive cloud storage; 2) microSD, microSDHC or microSDXC memory card (currently up to 64GB); 3) USB flash drive or mobile hard drive.