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One is more than enough for one instance of Windows.
You could run reagentc /info to see which is being used and delete the other two.
Are you dual booting though? I see your picture says disk 2. If you are then they could be recovery partitions for different instances.
My C:/ drive (SSD) has always been labeled #2...I have no idea why.
I am not dual booting per se. I use Macrium Reflect and do have the option at bootup to enter ITS recovery mode.
Does that mean I keep the last 2? The reagentc /info command produced this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk2\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 0cf1e747-9791-11e5-8c85-40e23015522f
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Thanks for all your help, lx07
This is the interesting part:
You'd have to compare to diskpart to be sure (as some partitions don't show in disk management screen) - enter
- diskpart
- select disk 2
- list partition
You will either see partition 3 is the first of the 450 MB recovery partitions ( which means the last 2 are not used) or it is your 110GB C partition (which means none of them are used).
The standard layout for EFI is something like thisMy guess is that each time you upgraded (from 7 or 8 to 10 and then from 10 build 10240 to build 10586) it is making a new recovery partition as it doesn't find it where it expects it.Code:DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Recovery 450 MB 20 KB (this is Recovery) Partition 2 System 100 MB 450 MB (this is EFI) Partition 3 Reserved 16 MB 551 MB (this reserved partition isn't shown in Disk Management) Partition 4 Primary 110 GB 567 MB (this is C drive)
You could shuffle the partitions order around with MiniTool Partition Wizard (you would have to reregister WinRE with reagentc after) or as you use Macrium just delete them all if you are short of space. If the first of the 3 is being used you'd need to move it anyway to expand C drive. If you aren't short of space could of course just leave them as they are fairly small.
Let us know what (if anything) you'd like to do...
Thanks very much, I will definitely get back to you...
1) So you have no MSR (Microsoft Reserved Paritition) which is normally part of the GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk layout. This may or may not be a problem down the road - opinions will vary widely - but I realize this isn't part of your question up to this point.
2) Partitions 4 & 5 are not in use. You could then follow-up on next to last paragraph in lx07's post # 4.
Thanks, Word Man. I'll see if Ix07 responds before doing anything drastic.
I completed a full back-up a few minutes ago, just in case