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Dual Boot question #2
Hello,
I have a dual boot laptop (Legacy BIOS), with W 10 Pro x64 (clean installation from Media Creation Tool dvd) and W7 x64
The disk management layout is the following: (from left to right):
Basic MBR Hard Disk 0
1) Recovery OEM Sony partition 15 GB primary (hidden partition)
2) System Reserved 100 MB with 64.2 MB free, was 70 MB free before W 10 installation, primary
3) W 7 primary (When I boot to W7 it's on C:\ )
4) W 10 primary ((When I boot to W10 it's on C:\ )
I have installed W10 on a previously manually formatted, via Diskpart, primary partition so after installation, normal, the W 10 Recovery 500 MB partition was not created.
The dual boot system runs perfectly fine for almost a year now.
However, although not needed, because I use a third party WinPE image backup cd, to make backups of my systems on external HDD's, I can still access the Windows Recovery Environment under Settings and perform a Reset or Refresh operation. I haven't tried all the other Troubleshooting Advanced Recovery options but the menu seems accessible since I used sometimes the "disable digital driver signature enforcement" feature.
Under W 10 when I open C:\Recovery this folder is empty.
Now the questions are::
1) where are the files of the Recovery partition located, are they relocated, after W 10 installation on C: or what? If not, where do W 10 find the necessary resources to perform those operations? (Reset/Refresh).
As mentionned earlier, I only have the 100 MB W7 System Reserved partition, which had 70 MB's free before W 10 installation, now it has 64.2 MB's free so I assume that upon W 10 installation W 10 wrote 5-6 MB's of "something" to it.
2) Is there any disadvantages of not having the 500 MB W10 Recovery partition?
I do not intend to use Bitlocker in the future but this option is also available under Control Panel. I assume that Bitlocker files should be on the Recovery partition, if it does not exist where are they?
In my case what are the potential disadvantages of not having a W 10 Recovery partition on Basic MBR Hard Disk?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.