GPT vs MBR

Slartybart · 24 Sep 2015

The 1str part was your Windows Recovery Environment, you should have left that one alone.
The 2nd part was your EFI System - that should have remained where it was
The 3rd part was your Microsoft System Reserve, you should have left that alone too
---> I can't tell waht it is now, looks like it's not much oaf anything, being unallocated.
---> KYHI is probably the member with the answer on the MSR part, he knows more about this than I do, I have a lot of catching up to do with reagrds to UEFI/GPT

The 4th part was your Windows drive
The 5th part was your OEM recovery - not sure why it's only 450 MB. That size looks more like Windows RE and it's far too small for an OEM recovery (Windows + OEM bloat = Previous OSes were noramlly 12-16 GB on HP machines).

Did the machine come with a separate HP Recovery Drive?

Please post more deatials about the parts

Lauch Command Prompt (Admin)
Diskpart
sel dis 0
lis par

** for each par listed, sel par #, then with the par in focus (selected), show the details
sel par #
~~det~~
det par

grab the text (right click the cmd title bar, select edit, pick Select all ... select edit, pick copy)

Post the text in a code box (# on the TF post menu)

exit diskpart
exit the cmd prompt.

Thanks, I'm not sure if I have any recommendations/suggestions other than a wipe and clean install (no one wants to hear that

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OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

Ok, you answered kinda late, as I have made those changes already. But, like I always do, I have an image backup of the drive before I made the changes. Now to answer some of your questions. The 1st part was windows restore, I have no reason to want any restore partition!! That is/was fine to remove. EFI system is still their, works fine, 3rd part is also STILL their MSR partition. Actually was the same as before, just copied it from one place to where it is now, and before it was unallocated. So whatever was in that 128 meg partition, is still their, being unallocated, not sure what could be in their. 5th part was again, a recovery partition. No need for ANY recovery partition. That's why I make image backups!!!!!!!
If I messed up the boot partition, or any important partition that windows 10 needed, I don't think I would have been able to boot back to my desktop in 24 sec's. Also have rebooted several more times since then.

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

Also tried those commands, diskpart did not recognize some of them. did report that the system partition 1 was healthy. (fat 32)

that's when the other commands you posted didn't work.

topgundcp · 24 Sep 2015

@OldMike65
If you open Admin command prompt and run: reagentc /info. You might find that you broke the recovery environment
@Slartybart

The 5th part was your OEM recovery - not sure why it's only 450 MB. That size looks more like Windows RE and it's far too small for an OEM recovery (Windows + OEM bloat = Previous OSes were noramlly 12-16 GB on HP machines).

This partition was created during the upgrade from 8 => 10 and Winre.wim which contains a set of recovery tools, initially was in partition 1 and now resides in partition 5 with a new set of tools for Windows 10 after the upgrade.

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

topgundcp said:

@OldMike65
If you open Admin command prompt and run: reagentc /info. You might find that you broke the recovery environment

why do I NEED the recovery environment??????

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

Ran that command and it said windows RE Disabled. Which is fine with me, as I don't want it.

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

Listen guys I do want your input!! AND I can restore everything back the way it was before I made those changes to my C-drive. Would take me about 6 mins to restore. But.........why should I if everything is working??????

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

The partition that I am a little worried about is the 2nd partition (128mg) but with that one all I did was move it from one place to another place, didn't change anything about it, just moved it.

OldMike65 · 24 Sep 2015

ok, talking to myself....later

topgundcp · 24 Sep 2015

OldMike65 said:

why do I NEED the recovery environment??????

To allow you to quickly boot up into the recovery environment for rapair/diagnostic by:

Win+R->Power->Restart with the SHIFT Key held down
From Admin command prompt, run: shutdown /r /o /t 0

It is your PC, you do what you want with it but Windows created it for a reason so I just keep mine the way Windows set up for and who knows what else you'll break by doing that. Saving a GB or 2 should not be a reason to delete those because during a Windows session, a lot of GB's might be created for tmp files, cache etc...

Listen guys I do want your input!! AND I can restore everything back the way it was before I made those changes to my C-drive. Would take me about 6 mins to restore. But.........why should I if everything is working??????

You should have a little patience waiting for an answer, lots of us don't type as fast as you do. And you've already broken the recovery environment so not everything is working