Recovery Partition - Windows 10 build 49 put on a 450MB recovery Partition

This recovery partition first of all is standard in windows. It aids with recovery should your processor ever crash and it will, here.

Renee

This recovery partition first of all is standard in windows. It aids with recovery should your processor ever crash and it will, here.

Renee

Because I back up my full Hard drive with Windows 10 all the time, a crash would not be a big deal to me as I can recover the last working Windows 10 I had

Hi,

I just delete mine, and then expand the drive it was taken from back into the space...

In my case the C:\ partition.

I used Acronis Disk Director on a bootable CD, but there is free stuff available...

One is Partition Wizard 9 that can be downloaded as an ISO that can be used to make a bootable CD or Flash Drive...

I was expecting to have some type of boot issue after doing this, but none have appeared...

Try at your own risk though... Your setup may respond differently than mine...

Hi,

Only the Startup Repair is available. The only part of the Startup Repair that is available is the Safe Mode section...

Like the OP, I rarely use these features... I don't login with a password, so I don't even have access to the

Shift + Restart under normal circumstances...

I also have backup images of the OS partition to Restore in the event of major issues...

I can access any of the repair features I may need from the DVD or Flash installation media should I need the .CMD or other more advanced features...

Eric,

Windows installation can be used to create a Windows partition and you can then use Computer management or another tool to create a partition on the rest of that drive after installation is complete.  Alternatively, you could create the partitions before installation if you wanted and then install into the desired one.

Whichever way you do it, it is important not to simply install without partitioning as it is then more difficult.  Windows does not care where it puts immoveable files during installation so if you have allowed it to install onto the whole of the drive then it might put some immoveable files near the end of the drive - this will inhibit your ability to shrink the system drive to make room on the disk for a data partition.  In short, if you ever want to partition, do it before or during installation.

Having a 70GB system partition has made System images a breeze.  25 minutes to create, 25 minutes to restore from. 

Thanks for the info Try*3. Those methods I use too.

I've just made some quick observations that are probably understood by techs.

Windows can install without repartitioning or creating extra partitions if:

• MBR style disk.
• Using pre-partitioned disk

Windows will not like to install on GPT disk if:

• GPT partitions have poor layout!

The poor layout, I partitioned a VM with GPT and two partitions (+small free space). Not dual booting and in a hurry I chose to install to first partition - Windows 10 said No. I didn't think to test the second partition.

For me, a novis, I don't know the full links between UEFI and GPT. For old'ish desktops without UEFI, I don't see the need for GPT. So I think some errors will be down to user misconfig than OS errors.

My UEFI laptop will stay GPT with what ever small space Windows sees fit to use. I have a SSD of 240GB, so the whole disk is used for the OS and I image the disk, not the partition - no dual boot.

As for my desktop. That'll stay MBR and I can image the partiton, hopefully without issue.

Only ameteur testing though.

Hi,

Just as a note...

I did an upgrade of Win 8.1 Pro to Win 10TP build 10049.... The disk was already pre-partitioned and the space was being used... It was a MBR disk... no GPT...

The upgrade process to build 10049 actually resized my windows C:\ partition to make room for the 450MB Recovery partition...

I have not previously encounter this type of issue until build 9926, or maybe 10041...