Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD


  1. Posts : 9
    Windows 10 64-bit
       #1

    Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD


    I have a feeling this has been asked before and the answer is “Just leave it, it doesn’t matter”

    I notice the recovery partition on my SSD is always reporting as “Never run” and “Needs optimizing”
    If you chose to optimize it does nothing.

    Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD-ss.png

    Any advice on this please?
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  2. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    Try not to let it bother you. It's just a quirk in Windows 10. There is no need to optimize the recovery partition.
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  3. Posts : 9
    Windows 10 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Ahh ok, thanks for replying.
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  4. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #4

    The recovery partition gets written to once, when Windows gets installed, and it only gets read from when you restart to the recovery menu. The only reason it is listed as "needing optimation" is because Windows never optimizes it because it is excluded due to being a recovery partition.
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  5. Posts : 2,832
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #5

    Hi,

    TS may want to turn on automatic optimization though.

    Cheers,
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