Why Two Recovery Partitions??

My original Windows 8 clean installation put the recovery partition at the start of the drive. I see the logic of placing it at the end of the drive. Why did MS originally decide to place it at the start of the drive?

Runnerbean said:

This is very rude of you Bro. I'm 66 years old so my mind may not be as sharp as it used to be. Just trying to learn something here.

 
Just reading through this, and I do get what you're saying here, and why. But for what it's worth — and I suppose it's not impossible this might also be of use to any other readers who didn't immediately catch it, if they read as fast as I do ( lol ) — what you have there is a 500 GB main drive, which is pretty standard. Those are really 465 GB, so that's what you really have to work with, first. And second, your two recovery partitions — actually, all of your partitions other than the main one — add up to about 1 GB ( because their stated sizes are in MB ). That means they're eating up only 0.2% of your available 465 GB, and you have 99.8% of it left. Were you to regain usage of one of the two recovery partitions, you'd regain half the lost space, meaning you'd regain about 0.1%, and would then have 99.9% of the drive available instead of 99.8%. That being the case, the commenter you address above may have felt you probably have more important things to worry about.

This is not to excuse, but to explain, and to illustrate, because numbers — percentages, in particular — do that pretty effectively.

Also, 66 or not, you still sound pretty sharp to me, baby.

cereberus said:

You just replied to an 8 month old post.

I'm aware, as I always look at all that stuff right off the bat when reading and/or replying. It is irrelevant. I'd rather not have to type out the reasons why at the moment.

cereberus said:

You just replied to an 8 month old post.

So did I - don't be cheeky.

bro67 said:

Sorry but not rude, just stating that you are beating a dead horse and you are sweating over something that is a nothing. <cut>

I found this thread because I also have multiple partitions. Yet they are not next to each other. One of the additional partitions is in the middle of a bunch of unformatted space, so is blocking me from expanding another partition to use that space.

When someone asks a technical question, the helpful responses are answering it, or not answering it. Telling people to not worry about the thing they are asking is almost never helpful.

I don't know why you're acting like it's so strange for the guy to have two partitions but it's not. I have two partitions and I am sure that it was caused by having windows 8 before and windows 10 now. The question is, which partition is the real one?

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I know windows used to place system partitions at the end of the drive. Did they start moving that to the begining of the drive? Having it at the beginning is better in my opinion becuase it allows you to extend your system partition if you copy your drive to a new, bigger drive.