disk management

Your drives doesn't have the normal configuration that can't be explained by the cloning software.
- Drive 0 doesn't have the Recovery partition
- Your drive 1 has two EFI partitions. A Data drive should have none.

My newest Desktop with External drives attached [3 x USB], Disk 0 is an Internal WD 2TB HDD for storage, Disk 1 is an NVMe of 512GB and is the System/Boot/OS drive. It came with Win10 and Upgraded to Win11 same day.

Pentagon said:

@Berton
That doesn't look very professional at all. Why don't you transfer the Recovery to Partition 6 and add the 1,17 GB from Partition 4 and the 17,9 GB from partition 5 to your C-Drive?

Didn't want to tell Dell about it and since still in warranty I use the old saying "leave sleeping dogs alone".

You can delete one of the windows recovery partitions, the last one.

reagentc /info to see which Windows partition is active

With a Dell you can redo the Dell recovery partition with a recent OS build 10/11 with Dell Support Assist or other software.
I don't know if this is a partition equivalent to the Dell factory default partition.

itsme1 said:

You can delete one of the windows recovery partitions, the last one.

reagentc /info to see which Windows partition is active

With a Dell you can redo the Dell recovery partition with a recent OS build 10/11 with Dell Support Assist or other software.
I don't know if this is a partition equivalent to the Dell factory default partition.

I need to keep the machine as close to default as possible so as to have the ability to see/know about what my Clients will be asking. I do my experiments on other machines 'just in case' such as upgrading Win10 to Win11 on unsupported equipment which so far has worked on a few Notebooks and one Desktop of 10-12 years old.

@Berton
DELL doesn't care as long as you don't make hardware changes. Warranty regulations allow to modify your PC. The most senseless advice is to delete partition 6! If you are clever you know how to move the Recovery from 4 ==> 6 without a single reagentc-command. The WIN10 winre.wim is probably still there. But it's your choice.

The 17.90 G Recovery partition is probably the Factory recover partition.
Why there are a 1.17 G and a 1.35 G (windows) recovery partitions I don't know. But as it seems that it came from DELL like that and I agree with Berton and would wait till Warranty expires to make any change.

Pentagon said:

@Berton
DELL doesn't care as long as you don't make hardware changes. Warranty regulations allow to modify your PC. The most senseless advice is to delete partition 6! If you are clever you know how to move the Recovery from 4 ==> 6 without a single reagentc-command. The WIN10 winre.wim is probably still there. But it's your choice.

I don't think I said I had a problem with the arrangement of my drive partitioning, must have been someone else.