Many computers ship with recovery partitions, so that you don't need to use separate Windows 7 media. When you completely wipe a hard drive clean, this recovery partition is also removed.

If you want to change or increase the Windows Recovery Environment or WinRE partition size in Windows 11/10, see this post for the instructions.

If you're setting up Windows Vista on bare metal (a so-called clean install), you can control partition sizes by choosing the right option from the Where do you want to install Windows? screen.

Learn how to safely delete Recovery Partition in Windows 11/10. If your hard disk has multiple Recovery Partitions, you can delete the useless one.

To fix the “Cannot install Windows, BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled on selected partition” error, suspend BitLocker via Settings or Control Panel, or use your recovery key to unlock the ...