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You can check which recovery partition is registered with the command reagentc /info from elevated command prompt. You'll see something like this:To find which partition the number above you need to check diskpart as disk management doesn't show all partitions (the MSR partition specifically which is partition 3 normally). Again from elevated command prompt:Code:Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 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\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 3d8f8337-bc56-11e5-a7c5-85493d747884 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. C:\Windows\system32>Code:C:\Windows\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.14393.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: WIN10 DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Recovery 500 MB 20 KB Partition 2 System 200 MB 500 MB Partition 3 Reserved 16 MB 701 MB Partition 4 Primary 32 GB 717 MB Partition 5 Primary 55 GB 33 GB Partition 6 Unknown 23 GB 88 GB Partition 7 Unknown 619 MB 112 GB
Perhaps it made a new one as 401MB is not big enough - normally it is 500MB AFAIK.
Last edited by lx07; 06 Aug 2016 at 09:45. Reason: Added diskpart
I just upgraded my laptop and I have no additional partition (see Partition Magic disk map below). Are you sure that recovery partition wasn't already present?
Hi Steve, I didn't get one either. I think the reason is that my recovery partition is 500MB and yours is 450MB. The OP had a recovery partition of 401MB. According to System builder deployment of Windows 10 for desktop editionsAs Winre is (according to your picture) 354.21MB this might explain it - there wasn't enough free space for the required 50MB free space. This is only a guess though.
- If the partition is less than 500 MB, it must have at least 50 MB of free space.
- If the partition is 500 MB or larger, it must have at least 320 MB of free space.
- If the partition is larger than 1 GB, we recommend that it should have at least 1 GB free.
Anyway reagentc /info will show the registered Winre.wim and if the new partition (probably 5 for the OP) isn't being used it could be deleted. If it is then partition 1 could be deleted - you just don't want to delete the partition with the registered RE image really
That shows the new partition is being used as your recovery partition. You should not delete it.
You could delete partition 1 and move partition 2 and 3 to the left. You can't do it with MS utilities - you'd have to use something like Partition Wizard
For 401MB I'd not bother - it is not so much space really - but if you could.
thanks a lot Ix07 for your help
in order to highlight the matter it is worth to mention the following :
when I create a backup using windows 7 included program omits partition 1 ( WINRE 401 MB ....) although Macrium Reflect and Acronis True Image don't . So, when restore from a System Image (backup) windows 7 backup program
fails , but Macrium Reflect and Acronis True Image restore successfully .