I occasionally get a PC to "freshen up" that has multiple System Reserved Partitions, generally having been upgraded from Win 7 to something newer.
I know how to identify the current Recovery Partition using DISKPART => List Partition and REagentC /info from the DOS prompt.
Is there a systemic way to determine what partition a system is booting from within Windows? I would rather not load a third party tool to find this info.
Please run:
DiskParInfo.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.
Keep doing Select Disk and Detail Disk for all your disks (physical drives).Code:diskpart list disk select disk 0 detail disk select disk 1 detail disk
My computer:
I know my computer is booting from disk 0 because it says Boot Disk : Yes. I know I am booting from Volume 2 on disk 0 because it is marked as the System volume. I know the OS is loading from Volume 0 on Disk 0 because it is marked as the Boot volume.Code:DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- * Disk 0 Online 476 GB 613 MB * Disk 1 Online 476 GB 0 B * DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> detail disk THNSN5512GPUK NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB Disk ID: {2D1BDC36-0E5D-4F13-8127-5364B7C757E3} Type : NVMe Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1D00)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : Yes Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : Yes Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 C 20H2 NTFS Partition 412 GB Healthy Boot Volume 1 Home NTFS Partition 64 GB Healthy Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System DISKPART> select disk 1 Disk 1 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> detail disk SK hynix SC311 SATA 512GB Disk ID: {246D39B3-BEAE-4D3E-9CCF-0476A206B456} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 3 D Data NTFS Partition 468 GB Healthy Volume 4 FAT32 Partition 8 GB Healthy Hidden DISKPART>
The problem is matching the volume numbers to partitions on the disk. I have not figured out a way to do that yet, other then just looking at file formats and sizes.
Det par typically displays the matching volumes and partitions.
In this result there were 8 volumes.
Using detail partition the volume matched to the partition was displayed:
Code:====================================================================== Disk 0 has 4 partition(s). Disk 1 has 1 partition(s). Disk 2 has 3 partition(s). Disk 3 has 2 partition(s). This computer has the above 4 fixed storage device(s) in total. ====================================================================== Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: DESKTOP-584HJSO Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 931 GB 1024 KB * Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B Disk 2 Online 931 GB 17 MB * Disk 3 Online 953 GB 1024 KB * Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 E Crucial NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Volume 1 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 D WD Caviar B NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Volume 4 C Samsung 960 NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot Volume 5 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Volume 6 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 7 F Adata XPG S NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy Disk 0 is now the selected disk. CT1000MX500SSD1 Disk ID: {F888B341-F788-11EA-8590-AC675D43DBB7} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 1 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0102)#PCI(0000)#PCI(0A00)#PCI(0000)#ATA(C01T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 E Crucial NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Volume 1 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 101 MB Partition 3 Primary 930 GB 117 MB Partition 4 Recovery 505 MB 931 GB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0X8000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden Partition 2 is now the selected partition. Partition 2 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0X8000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 105906176 There is no volume associated with this partition. Partition 3 is now the selected partition. Partition 3 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 122683392 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 0 E Crucial NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Partition 4 is now the selected partition. Partition 4 Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac Hidden : No Required: Yes Attrib : 0X8000000000000001 Offset in Bytes: 999673561088 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 8 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Hidden Disk 1 is now the selected disk. WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 Disk ID: EEB9BAC6 Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 4 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0102)#PCI(0000)#PCI(0A00)#PCI(0000)#ATA(C04T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 3 D WD Caviar B NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 931 GB 1024 KB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : 07 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 3 D WD Caviar B NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Disk 2 is now the selected disk. Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB Disk ID: {5B6E44CA-0417-4852-B7E1-00BE769EBEA4} Type : NVMe Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0101)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : Yes Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : Yes Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 4 C Samsung 960 NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot Volume 5 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Volume 6 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Primary 930 GB 117 MB Partition 3 Recovery 505 MB 931 GB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0X8000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 6 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System Partition 2 is now the selected partition. Partition 2 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 122683392 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 4 C Samsung 960 NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot Partition 3 is now the selected partition. Partition 3 Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac Hidden : No Required: Yes Attrib : 0X8000000000000001 Offset in Bytes: 999673561088 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 9 NTFS Partition 505 MB Healthy Hidden Disk 3 is now the selected disk. ADATA SX8200PNP Disk ID: {519B977D-E4C4-4162-B2F3-6ACD368DE8A2} Type : NVMe Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0102)#PCI(0000)#PCI(0000)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 7 F Adata XPG S NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Reserved 15 MB 17 KB Partition 2 Primary 953 GB 16 MB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 17408 There is no volume associated with this partition. Partition 2 is now the selected partition. Partition 2 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 16777216 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 7 F Adata XPG S NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy
Yes that would be nice.
The detail partition command can report unexpected findings such as RAW partitions.
There was a thread in the past few months that we had communicated on that had 3 RAW partitions (2 recovery and 1 system partition).
These RAW partitions were not displayed in disk management.
List volume had only displayed 2 RAW partitions: vol 2 and 3
The detail partition command had displayed RAW for 3 partitions: vol 2, 3 and 11 (disk 4, partition 2, volume 11)
Windows hibernation help
Posts #56 and #83
The lis vol command had displayed only 2 RAW volumes.
The det par had displayed the third RAW partition:
Code:Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.630] (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: DRAGONHEART DISKPART> lis dis Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 111 GB 12 GB * * Disk 1 Online 2794 GB 1024 KB * Disk 2 Online 3726 GB 1024 KB * Disk 3 Online 7452 GB 0 B * Disk 4 Online 931 GB 93 GB * DISKPART> lis vol Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 J New Volume NTFS Simple 98 GB Healthy Volume 1 Recovery NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 2 RAW Partition 99 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 RAW Partition 477 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 4 H DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 5 D NTFS Partition 2794 GB Healthy Pagefile Volume 6 F New Volume NTFS Partition 3726 GB Healthy Pagefile Volume 7 E New Volume NTFS Partition 7451 GB Healthy Pagefile Volume 8 C NTFS Partition 837 GB Healthy Boot Volume 9 Partition 556 MB Healthy Offline Volume 10 NEW VOLUME FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System DISKPART> sel dis 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> det dis KINGSTON SV300S37A120G Disk ID: {F52728F4-2311-4A6A-934B-982A2A4E9D88} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 J New Volume NTFS Simple 98 GB Healthy Volume 1 Recovery NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 2 RAW Partition 99 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 RAW Partition 477 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Recovery 450 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 System 99 MB 451 MB Partition 3 Dynamic Data 110 GB 550 MB Partition 4 Recovery 477 MB 111 GB Partition 5 Dynamic Reserved 1024 KB 111 GB Partition 6 Reserved 10 MB 111 GB DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 1 Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac Hidden : Yes Required: Yes Attrib : 0X8000000000000001 Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 1 Recovery NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> sel par 2 Partition 2 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 2 Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0X8000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 472907776 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 RAW Partition 99 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> sel par 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 3 Type : af9b60a0-1431-4f62-bc68-3311714a69ad Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 576716800 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 0 J New Volume NTFS Simple 98 GB Healthy DISKPART> sel par 4 Partition 4 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 4 Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac Hidden : Yes Required: Yes Attrib : 0X8000000000000001 Offset in Bytes: 119521935360 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 3 RAW Partition 477 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> sel par 5 Partition 5 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 5 Type : 5808c8aa-7e8f-42e0-85d2-e1e90434cfb3 Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 120022106112 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 6 Partition 6 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 6 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 120023154688 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel dis 1 Disk 1 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> det dis HITACHI HUA723030ALA640 Disk ID: {120AD27E-9845-4724-AC21-FE88DCB6158B} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 1 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T01L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 5 D NTFS Partition 2794 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Reserved 15 MB 17 KB Partition 2 Primary 2794 GB 16 MB DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 1 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 17408 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 2 Partition 2 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 2 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 16777216 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 5 D NTFS Partition 2794 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> sel par 3 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 4 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 5 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 6 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel dis 2 Disk 2 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> det dis ST4000DM004-2CV104 Disk ID: {6F1E33E1-DD6C-4512-B9A6-35353735F2F3} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 2 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T02L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 6 F New Volume NTFS Partition 3726 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Reserved 15 MB 17 KB Partition 2 Primary 3726 GB 16 MB DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 1 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 17408 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 2 Partition 2 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 2 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 16777216 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 6 F New Volume NTFS Partition 3726 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> sel par 3 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 4 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 5 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 6 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel dis 3 Disk 3 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> det dis ST8000VN0022-2EL112 Disk ID: {C146C9E3-2B2B-421F-8A4A-BD55FB2DA744} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 3 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T03L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 7 E New Volume NTFS Partition 7451 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 17 KB Partition 2 Primary 7451 GB 129 MB DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 1 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 17408 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 2 Partition 2 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 2 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 135266304 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 7 E New Volume NTFS Partition 7451 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> sel par 3 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 4 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 5 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 6 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel dis 4 Disk 4 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> det dis Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB Disk ID: {D6374565-2BE7-4875-A273-7BAA0766EA6F} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 5 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1700)#ATA(C00T05L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : Yes Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : Yes Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 8 C NTFS Partition 837 GB Healthy Boot Volume 9 Partition 556 MB Healthy Offline Volume 10 NEW VOLUME FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 837 GB 1024 KB Partition 2 Recovery 556 MB 837 GB Partition 3 Primary 100 MB 838 GB DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 1 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 8 C NTFS Partition 837 GB Healthy Boot DISKPART> sel par 2 Partition 2 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 2 Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac Hidden : Yes Required: Yes Attrib : 0X8000000000000001 Offset in Bytes: 899600613376 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 11 RAW Partition 556 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> sel par 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 3 Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 Hidden : No Required: No Attrib : 0X8000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 900183621632 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 10 NEW VOLUME FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System DISKPART> sel par 4 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 5 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 6 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition. There is no partition selected. DISKPART> det par There is no partition selected. Please select a partition and try again. DISKPART> sel dis 5 The disk you specified is not valid. There is no disk selected. DISKPART> det dis There is no disk selected to list details for. Please select a disk and try again. Displays the properties of the selected disk and the list of volumes on the disk. Syntax: DETAIL DISK A disk must be selected for this operation to succeed. Example: DETAIL DISK DISKPART> lis par There is no disk selected to list partitions. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 1 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 2 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 3 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 4 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 5 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 6 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 7 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> sel par 8 There is no disk selected to set the partition. Select a disk and try again. DISKPART> det par There is no disk selected. Please select a disk and try again. DISKPART> DISKPART>
@zbook, @NavyLCDR Thank you both for your help.
My eyes glazed over when I first read this and it has taken me some time to digest. I was expecting a simple answer for my question, but I should know better by now.
First, apparently I did not ask the correct question, though I think my answer is buried in the batch file results.
What I really wanted to know was which partition the bootmgr is located on. This may be a System Reserved partition (MBR) or on the Windows partition, depending on the history of the device. I have seen machines with multiple partitions that are (were?) the System Reserved partition (MBR) as PCs were upgraded or updated. It seems I can get the current value from: bcedit /emum all or with the DISKPART Detail Volume command and finding what is marked as SYSTEM. The command bcdedit /emum all has also highlighted some other unseen old boot references I should probably clean up.
FWIW, @zbook, my version of DiskParInfo.bat includes both reagentc /info data and bcdedit /emum all that I do not see in the above output.
So as an example, the drive below was a clean build Win 7 upgraded to Win 10. Upgrade had no issues as I recall. The original Win 7 had a 100MB Reserved partition, but I am now finding that, I assume during the upgrade, the partition was not big enough and that the upgrade moved the boot mgr to the C:\ drive, at least it appears so to me. I do not recall if the Recovery partition was or was not there. The 100MB partition, Disk 0, Partition 1 also has no Volume associated with it. In Disk Management you would think this to be a happy system partition, or at least I did, but in DISKPART the partition is shown as Type Primary as opposed to Type System.
Historically I have used Disk Management console to look at device partitions, but over the last week have learned that this is a poor tool for making any real determinations about what is what on a hard drive. The lack of visibility to the MSR partition (UEFI) is what lead me to this epiphany. So I have started to learn DISKPART. I am also confused about volumes though not sure this helps as the MSR (UEFI system) appears not to have one, but does have a partition.Code:Disk 0 is an SSD. It has 3 partition(s). Model: CT120BX300SSD1 Disk 1 is an SSD. It has 1 partition(s). Model: LITEONIT LSS-32L6G-HP This computer has the above 2 fixed storage device(s) in total. ======================================================================= Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: BC-14 Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 111 GB 2048 KB Disk 1 Online 29 GB 0 B Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 C OS NTFS Partition 110 GB Healthy System Volume 1 NTFS Partition 728 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 2 F SSD NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy Disk 0 is now the selected disk. CT120BX3 00SSD1 SCSI Disk Device Disk ID: BC06469D Type : RAID Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#RAID(P00T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : Yes Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : Yes Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 C OS NTFS Partition 110 GB Healthy System Volume 1 NTFS Partition 728 MB Healthy Hidden Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Primary 110 GB 101 MB Partition 3 Recovery 728 MB 111 GB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : 17 Hidden: Yes Active: No Offset in Bytes: 1048576 There is no volume associated with this partition. Partition 2 is now the selected partition. Partition 2 Type : 07 Hidden: No Active: Yes Offset in Bytes: 105906176 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 0 C OS NTFS Partition 110 GB Healthy System Partition 3 is now the selected partition. Partition 3 Type : 27 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 119267131392 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 1 NTFS Partition 728 MB Healthy Hidden Disk 1 is now the selected disk. LITEONIT LSS-32L6G-HP SCSI Disk Device Disk ID: C5649247 Type : RAID Status : Online Path : 1 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#RAID(P01T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 2 F SSD NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 29 GB 1024 KB Partition 1 is now the selected partition. Partition 1 Type : 07 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 1048576 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 F SSD NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy =============================================================================== Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 75f51e48-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. =============================================================================== Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {current} resumeobject {dfed91a6-fe36-11ea-8c04-a0a8546e0ba8} displayorder {current} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {1f890ac3-35e4-11e0-a018-0018716eb820} device locate=\Windows\system32\winload.exe path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} recoveryenabled No osdevice locate=\Windows systemroot \Windows resumeobject {1f890ac2-35e4-11e0-a018-0018716eb820} nx OptIn Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {451c3256-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779} device ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\451c3256-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779\Winre.wim,{451c3257-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779} path \windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Recovery Environment inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\451c3256-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779\Winre.wim,{451c3257-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779} systemroot \windows nx OptIn winpe Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {75f51e48-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} device ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume3]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{75f51e49-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} path \windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Recovery Environment locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} displaymessage Recovery osdevice ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume3]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{75f51e49-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} systemroot \windows nx OptIn bootmenupolicy Standard winpe Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Windows 10 locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} recoverysequence {75f51e48-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} displaymessageoverride Recovery recoveryenabled Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 osdevice partition=C: systemroot \WINDOWS resumeobject {dfed91a6-fe36-11ea-8c04-a0a8546e0ba8} nx OptIn bootmenupolicy Standard Resume from Hibernate --------------------- identifier {1f890ac2-35e4-11e0-a018-0018716eb820} device locate=\Windows\system32\winresume.exe path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe description Windows Resume Application locale en-US inherit {resumeloadersettings} filedevice locate=\hiberfil.sys filepath \hiberfil.sys debugoptionenabled No Resume from Hibernate --------------------- identifier {dfed91a6-fe36-11ea-8c04-a0a8546e0ba8} device partition=C: path \WINDOWS\system32\winresume.exe description Windows Resume Application locale en-US inherit {resumeloadersettings} recoverysequence {75f51e48-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} recoveryenabled Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 filedevice partition=C: filepath \hiberfil.sys bootmenupolicy Standard debugoptionenabled No Windows Memory Tester --------------------- identifier {memdiag} device partition=C: path \boot\memtest.exe description Windows Memory Diagnostic locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} badmemoryaccess Yes EMS Settings ------------ identifier {emssettings} bootems No Debugger Settings ----------------- identifier {dbgsettings} debugtype Serial debugport 1 baudrate 115200 RAM Defects ----------- identifier {badmemory} Global Settings --------------- identifier {globalsettings} inherit {dbgsettings} {emssettings} {badmemory} Boot Loader Settings -------------------- identifier {bootloadersettings} inherit {globalsettings} {hypervisorsettings} Hypervisor Settings ------------------- identifier {hypervisorsettings} hypervisordebugtype Serial hypervisordebugport 1 hypervisorbaudrate 115200 Resume Loader Settings ---------------------- identifier {resumeloadersettings} inherit {globalsettings} Device options -------------- identifier {451c3257-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779} description Ramdisk Options ramdisksdidevice partition=C: ramdisksdipath \Recovery\451c3256-51f9-11e6-9240-929ee37c9779\boot.sdi Device options -------------- identifier {75f51e49-fe15-11ea-b2d2-b2cafcd8abfc} description Windows Recovery ramdisksdidevice partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume3 ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
While I see many posts about users obsessing over the abandoned System Reserved and Recovery partitions, I am less concerned about the space than I am about compromising functionality. I am of the opinion that on an MBR system, the typical home user does not need anything but the OS partition with the boot mgr and bootloader on it. I have never setup a PC with Bitlocker, used a Dynamic disk or dual boot for any home PC. That said, I rather build (or Freshen Up) the computer for the future and with all the bits in place (focus of the post). MS seems to be screwing around with the partition sizes and locations with different Win 10 OS's. As of V2004 the Recovery partition is at the end of the drive, which with MS only tools makes upgrading a PC to a larger drive somewhat limited (ie te OS gets sandwiched between the System Reserved partition and the Recovery partition (MBR)). This is easily fixed with AOMEI's partition tool.
I like to move data onto a data partition to simplify imaging and data backup. Historically I have used G-Parted, but had an issues on a UEFI system with the MSR partition, not sure if it was me or G-Parted. I found AOMEI can do this (clone). To future proof the device I have also started to expand the other "System" partitions (using 950MB for now) in hopes that MS will not abandon them and and create new ones. While I am at it I thought I would clean up what ever orphans exist, just need to know which they are.
Comments on my partition changes are invited.
FWIW, it appears that new installs of both Win 10 V2004 and V20H@ on a clean 64 bit MBR install only create a 50 MB System Reserved partition. I have tested this twice now. WindowsImageBackup will fail with less that 100MB (technically 50MB free). UEFI builds are either 100MB or 260 MB depending on the drives sector size.
Please take the opportunity to correct any of my terminology if you believe I am ambiguous or incorrect.
Hopefully not TL\DR
The drive is MBR.
Does the BIOS have UEFI settings? With and without CSM?
Were you considering MBR to GPT?
Please indicate specifically what you want to do.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ws-and-gpt-faq
Actually, not looking to do anything to this PC ATM, it may not be right, but it's not broken. It's just the best example of the types of issues I will need to resolve.
My goal only is to make sure I am clear on how to id what is in use for both the boot mgr and recovery drives on both EUFI and MBR. I think I am good with that now, thank you!
I am not clear on why some partitions have no volume (but not tried to find out).
I am not clear if there is a downside (other then the space) to increasing the System and Recovery partitions.
I have become very familiar with the pages you linked, indeed I used the script on the UEFI page to build out the UEFI PC that started all this commotion. I modified it, copied it to the Windows install USB and on first boot use Repair to execute the script from the CMD prompt. Easy Peasy.
You're welcome.
The reserved partition has no volume.
There typically is no need to modify system, reserved, or recovery partitions unless there is a failure to upgrade.
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