Does my disk partitioning appear to be OK?

The only thing which concerns me is having the Backup partition on the same drive as Windows. Is that an image backup, a file/folder backup or another? I personally wouldn’t have any backup on the same drive as Windows in case the drive fails completely as you’d lose everything unless it is backed up elsewhere.

Wise decision. I have a 6TB external drive for Macrium backups.

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jhcarver said:

Excellent thoughts! I'll start by deleting the Recovery Partition.

Regards,
John

Did you disabled the recovery by running run reagentc /disable before deleting the partition?

jhcarver said:

I did not do that. I cannot find the winRE.wim image anywhere on the disk drive. Should I run the built-in Windows system image tool and create a USB recovery disk when prompted?

Regards,
John

If you have Folder options set to "show" hidden files and folders...





Do you see this folder on the C:\ drive?





Also... keep in mind, that if you use backup software, you don't really need a recovery partition.

jhcarver said:

Ghot: Yes, the hidden $winREAgent folder is present. As I think about it more, it is not the winRE.wim I need because I do use backup software. I was looking to access the Recovery Environment tools and I am able to do that through...

Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery > under Advanced Startup, Restart

So it appears I was fretting over nothing and will again mark this as SOLVED.

Regards,
John

The Macrium bootable media gives you access to the Command Prompt.





I killed the Recovery partition the day I installed Windows 10. Haven't had any problems
For my Macrium bootable media I used the WinPE rather than the WinRE to build the media.
Again, zero problems.

I removed the Recovery partition on Windows 11 as well...