Windows 10: Removing recovery partition

Windows 10 Setup creates a recovery partition at the disk’s “right end”, as you can see in Windows hard disk management.

You might not even notice that this partition exists, until you want to extend your main partition’s size, e.g. after you have cloned your harddrive to a larger one. While the recovery partition exists, you cannot use Windows HDD management to enlarge a partition besides the recovery, and you also cannot delete the recovery partition within the graphical interface.

Solution

Use command-line tool diskpart: