Windows 10: 250mg recovery partition ?

Thanks,
I once again re-installed and again the reserve partition was not created :/
Very weird sheet going on.
Cheers.

 

I show a 350 MB System Reserved partition.

 

Alpha, when I do a clean install, I delete everything down to the bare bones brand new drive right off the show room floor. Once that's done, I then follow the yellow brick road and finally it'll tell me it's most likely gonna take some hard drive for itself. I continue on and that's what it does.

I don't believe I've ever done a custom install, but the more I think about it, what I just described seems to be a custom install.

Soooooooo, I'll get StarFerret's 15.6 lappy out (she still has 9879 installed) and do a clean install. Then I can check my brain.

OMGoodness! I just got a notification that Radio Shack has filed for bankruptcy!

 

3 questions:
1. How many disks in your machine, HDD,SSD?
2. Are (any) of them 'dynamic disks'?
3. Can you post a shot of Disk Management?

 

I only run one hdd or sdd at a time there are no extra drive slots mother board does not support multiple disks although I do have a evo dual ssd case the lower slot is not powered it's only for storing the other ssd,
9926 is going on my laptops old hdd it fits in the dual ssd case,

I have installed the prior build 996? on it and it did create the 350mb partition

Last I checked it was ntfs formatted with diskpart,
At the moment I'm running a full scan with mini tool recovery wizard to see what it finds so far,
Attachment 12041

 

Thrash, right click on the Start icon and you will see a whole bunch of things. Disk Management is about midway down the menu (#8 I think). I'm looking at the one on Windows 10, but I'm pretty sure this one's brought forward from Windows 8.1.

 

I'm on win-7 and have already removed 10 again so getting on 10 is not possible *Wink
But I am noticing the odd hdd size 232.9 gb
I could of sworn this is a 250gb drive :/

 

That's about right, Thrash. Mine's a 250 GB drive and shows 232.54 GB plus the 350 MB Reserve.

 

Okay thanks for confirming the size,
I would expect that from an ssd but not a hdd ;/

 

Alpha, when I do a clean install, I delete everything down to the bare bones brand new drive right off the show room floor. Once that's done, I then follow the yellow brick road and finally it'll tell me it's most likely gonna take some hard drive for itself. I continue on and that's what it does.

I don't believe I've ever done a custom install, but the more I think about it, what I just described seems to be a custom install.

Soooooooo, I'll get StarFerret's 15.6 lappy out (she still has 9879 installed) and do a clean install. Then I can check my brain.

OMGoodness! I just got a notification that Radio Shack has filed for bankruptcy! If you deleted partitions during the install you did a custom install. At some point you get the "Install Now" screen, then the enter your key screen, and then the Upgrade Windows or Custom install option. < If Windows was already installed on that PC. It's may be slightly different if the drive is blank. What partitions get automatically created depends on whether the PC has UEFI or not. You get the System Reserved for legacy, Recovery and EFI for UEFI BIOS.

 

That sounds correct Alpha,
Unfortunately it's not working out like that,
I'm tempted to install one of the prior builds to see what happens
There are no other partitions and I did format the one 232.9 gb it showed during the custom install
It's just not creating the reserve anymore
Possibly it's the drive or I do know the bios is very old but I've installed every build and it's been created except for 9926.
Win8 also created it and that was about a week ago but that was on a new ssd,
Cheers.

Hitachi model hts543225l9a300 5400rpm

 

I've deleted all the partitions and just left the drive blank and unpartitioned. And then just clicked next without creating any partitions and Windows did it all in the background. No prompts or anything, the next screen was the copying files screen. Windows will work without that partition. I'm not what pitfalls will ensue though. I do believe there is a tutorial on how remove that partition, might be on the Windows 7 forum. I can't remember ever doing an install where I didn't get those system partitions. I've only done about 3 Windows 10 installs, and I'm not running it at all at the moment. I will give it another go when the next build gets released though.

 

Sheesh, Edwin, after a few gazillion installations of Windows as far back as Windows 3.1, I'm learning new things about setting up Windows. Always something to learn, and I may go back and give this one a clean install, just for curiosity.

 

Yea I'm not sure what happened but I just had to do startup repair a few times to straighten out booting into 7
I believe you can stick a fork in me I'm done with 10 until it's final and can be installed on 8.1's ssd

Issue that created the down fall is a missing boot manager in 10 that screwed up the bios priority
Simply caused by me forgetting to disconnect a charger from my machine that was in and I shut down 7,
Then inserted 10's hdd and machine would not boot
Not sure why a charger would cause all of this *Confused
7 is booting normally now so I'm not going to push my luck anymore with betaware *Tongue

 

I had something similar happen to me. I unplugged my Windows 8.1 drive and clean installed 10 on a second SSD. Plugged my Windows 8.1 drive back in and found my BIOS boot order was all messed up. Fixed that and tried to boot into 8.1 and got a repairing volume error message. That may not be the exact wording, was something like that. It then counted up until it reached 100% and rebooted into 8.1. Other glitches etc with 10 had me unplug that drive and just go back to 8.1.