Missing Recovery partions - is that a problem?

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  1. Posts : 30,530
    Windows 10 (Pro and Insider Pro)
       #21

    pokeefe0001 said:
    I'm not sure.
    Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
    Information:

    Windows RE status: Enabled
    Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition2\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 643f6759-5bde-11e8-a629-c6f498b2584b
    Recovery image location:
    Recovery image index: 0
    Custom image location:
    Custom image index: 0

    REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

    Partition2. I don't know how Windows counts it's partitions, but I would expect that System Reserved partition to be either 0 or 1.

    I think I may have something odd going on with my drive0. MiniTool Partition Wizard fails to resize the OS partition even though it reports no problem (that I can find).

    I'm going to start a new thread about my resizing problem. It's not really the topic of this thread.
    Cannot resize my OS partition - Windows 10 Forums
    minitool Partition wizard will show you all the info (diskpart command can too), and let you make some space at the end. You can do in-place repair (mounting ISO of same Windows you have and run setup) and Windows will make Restore partition at the end.
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  2. Posts : 720
    Win10 x64 Pro - 2 desktops, 2 laptops
    Thread Starter
       #22

    The capability to convert to GPT during recovery is also available in my backup tool - Acronis True Image. However, I'm worried that whatever problem I'm running into may also cause problems for those utilities. (After all, Partition Wizard should be able to do the reallocation that MBR2GTP could not. Since both fail I think I may have a deeper problem.

    I hadn't thought of doing a Windows in-place repair.
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  3. Posts : 928
    Win 10
       #23

    I would personally leave it like it is. All my computers are MBR by choice and I would not have it any other way.
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  4. Posts : 720
    Win10 x64 Pro - 2 desktops, 2 laptops
    Thread Starter
       #24

    Uh. Never mind. Something in the past few hours worked. Disk Manager now showed shrink space and MBR2GPT finally worked. I have no idea what I did, but something succeeded. <sheesh>
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  5. Posts : 41,413
    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
       #25

    Glad to see the problem sorted.
    Post #7 has steps for confirmation.
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  6. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #26

    You might want to go back and look at the partitions in MiniTool Partition Wizard - you probably have some wasted space on the drive now you can expand the C: partition into.
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  7. Posts : 720
    Win10 x64 Pro - 2 desktops, 2 laptops
    Thread Starter
       #27

    NavyLCDR said:
    You might want to go back and look at the partitions in MiniTool Partition Wizard - you probably have some wasted space on the drive now you can expand the C: partition into.
    I was thinking about that. Disk Management does not show anything, but I think Partition Wizard must have done something since it was all I used outside of Disk management. It's sort of odd it didn't help right away, but maybe I needed an extra reboot for some reason.

    <pause>

    Nope. No extra partition created by Partition Wizard. There's the 500MB System Reserved partition, the 237.9 Windows partition, and the 100MB EFI partition created by MBR2GPT. Too bad I didn't note what the total allocated space was before I started this exercise. I think that the space left over when Partition Wizard shrinks a partition shows as unallocated, but maybe it simply disappears.

    By the way, this drive is a 256GB SSD. The total allocated space of 238.5 is about 93% of the stated capacity - a bit more than I would have expected for an SSD. If any space disappeared, it wasn't much.
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  8. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #28

    You probably don't need the 500MB system reserved partition.
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  9. Posts : 720
    Win10 x64 Pro - 2 desktops, 2 laptops
    Thread Starter
       #29

    NavyLCDR said:
    You probably don't need the 500MB system reserved partition.
    Probably not, but since I'm using only about 55% of the Windows partition I'm not going to worry about 500MB right now.
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