Win10 2004 upgrade created a second recovery partition

Win10 Pro Ver 2004
Just discovered that when I upgraded from Ver 1909 to 2004 a new Recovery partition was created.
It's same structure as the other.
Ver 1903 has the recovery partition as the fist one.
Ver 2004 has the recovery partition at the end of the C: partition

This happens when the old Recovery is not big enough for the new files. It should not happen again, since the new Recovery can be expanded to the left if needed in future updates, taking space from the Win10P partition.

You can delete the old one and label the new as "RECOVERY" to avoid confusions. First check that the new partition is really the Recovery partition, use reagentc /info.

The second recovery partition may be related to the 2004 new location of the recovery partition.

The old recovery partition is approximately 500 MB and can be left as is unless the additional free space is needed.


Using command line the disabled recovery partition can be deleted:
Identify the working recovery partition: reagentc /info
For the non-working recovery partition: delete partition override

See this tutorial:
How to Delete Recovery Partition in Windows 10

Glad to see it sorted.
You're welcome.

Megahertz said:

Thanks to all.
I created a disk image without the old Restore partition, cleaned the drive and restored from the image.

Good thinking! Is your recovery environment still enabled (reagentc /info)?

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.20180.1000]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

    Windows RE status:         Enabled
    Windows RE location:       \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 55baa7b3-d1ba-11ea-a94f-92ff749bae1e
    Recovery image location:
    Recovery image index:      0
    Custom image location:
    Custom image index:        0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

Everything seems to be OK

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.388]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information:

    Windows RE status:         Enabled
    Windows RE location:       \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 4f2d091c-a06a-11ea-9e26-aecd8e831242
    Recovery image location:
    Recovery image index:      0
    Custom image location:
    Custom image index:        0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.