diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
index de29386022cc6..bf51967ec5ab8 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
@@ -759,6 +759,17 @@ private void innerClose() throws IOException {
         public String toString() {
             return "store(" + in.toString() + ")";
         }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean checkPendingDeletions() throws IOException {
+            if (super.checkPendingDeletions() == false) {
+                deletesLogger.debug("directory has still pending deletes");
+            }
+            // we skip this check since our IW usage always goes forward.
+            // we still might run into situations where we have pending deletes ie. in shrink / split case
+            // and that will cause issues on windows since we open multiple IW instance one after another during the split/shrink recovery
+            return false;
+        }
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/ShrinkIndexIT.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/ShrinkIndexIT.java
index 8443ac2bf2e3d..e48f151081f62 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/ShrinkIndexIT.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/ShrinkIndexIT.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortField;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortedSetSelector;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortedSetSortField;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.AwaitsFix;
 import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.reroute.ClusterRerouteResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.state.ClusterStateRequest;
@@ -77,7 +76,6 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThanOrEqualTo;
 
-@AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/30416")
 public class ShrinkIndexIT extends ESIntegTestCase {
 
     @Override
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/SplitIndexIT.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/SplitIndexIT.java
index a7f7ed6f52546..fe6e980ab4259 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/SplitIndexIT.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/create/SplitIndexIT.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortedSetSelector;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortedSetSortField;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.join.ScoreMode;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase;
 import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.state.ClusterStateRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.state.ClusterStateResponse;
@@ -81,7 +80,6 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThanOrEqualTo;
 
 
-@LuceneTestCase.AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/30416")
 public class SplitIndexIT extends ESIntegTestCase {
 
     @Override