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help required to delete the extra recovery partition
I had purchased an HP laptop that came with windows 8. This was upgraded online to v 8.1 and then to windows 10 and subsequently to the feature updates of Windows 10.
When checking (yesterday) with disk management I found there were three recovery partitions apart from the three disk storage partitions that i work with and one more for the UEFI tools.
I have deleted the HP OEM recovery partition as that facility was built into the HP recovery manager options and I would probably never be returning to a win 8 installation. By default the space freed up was added to my last partition automatically
I need to help to delete the other partition(s) after being sure that my recovery environment tools and winre.wim file is safe and usuable.
One question here: If I can boot into the windows recovery environment does it means that my winre.wim file is usuable and safe?
This is what disk management in windows shows (I have only one disk)
This is what diskpart command in admin run Powershell shows as the list of partitions
As you can see there is one more 128 MB partion seen (named Reserved) in diskpart and not seen in windows disk management
reagentc /info points the location of the recovery file to the disk0 partition4 i.e. the system partition disk (C drive) where the OS is installed.
Is this possible?
I always thought the winRe file and the recovery environment resides on an adjacent partition
Please help me to decide whether I can delete the other two partitions named recovery?
Also what is that 128MB partition (no 3) just before the system partition?
I am changing to an SSD disk and wish to know which partitions to image and restore to the new SSD drive
Thank you very much for guidance and answers on these issues. I am reasonable familiar with PCs and software but not a genius!