Macrium with Red line on Disk 1 Partition 1

meebers · 14 Oct 2020

Just prior to start downloading insider ver 20236.1. looked at my disk with Macrium to make a backup. One partition has a red line vrs all others with blue line (Disc 1 Part 1, the recovery partition) on my system. Never noticed that before until now. Normally they are 540 MB, this one is 499 MB. Is it red because of not much memory left?? Here are 2 snips to show.

dalchina · 14 Oct 2020

Just indicates the partition is nearly full in the usual way.

meebers · 14 Oct 2020

dalchina said:

Just indicates the partition is nearly full in the usual way.

What I was guessing, tx for the confirmation..

EdTittel · 15 Oct 2020

Next time you clean install Windows 10 it should use a different disk layout that puts the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition at the end of the drive layout, rather than the beginning. This applies to all newer Windows 10 versions, starting with 1909, as documented in these Win10.Guru stories "New 1909 Disk Layout" (mine) and "Thank you, Microsoft -- An Important Change in Windows Setup" (from my site partner, Kari the Finn aka @Kari).
HTH,
--Ed--