Windows 10: After Upgrade to Win 10 - Is Recovery Partition Useful?

Discus and support After Upgrade to Win 10 - Is Recovery Partition Useful? in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; Now running Win 10 Pro 64bit. Just did an in-place upgrade from Win 7 Pro. Seems to have worked fine - but I'm still testing.... This is an HP PC... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by larrymcg, Feb 3, 2016.

  1. larrymcg Win User

    After Upgrade to Win 10 - Is Recovery Partition Useful?


    Now running Win 10 Pro 64bit. Just did an in-place upgrade from Win 7 Pro. Seems to have worked fine - but I'm still testing....

    This is an HP PC which came with Win 7 and there is a recovery partition on the system disk.

    Is this recovery partition of any use now that I've upgraded to Win 10?
    If I used it would I go back to the factory version of Win 7?

    Should I just ignore that it is there?

    -- Larry

    :)
     
    larrymcg, Feb 3, 2016
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  2. Windows 10 - Delete Recovery Partition

    This works as advertised but you lose the ability to create a recovery drive (you just deleted the necessary files in this procedure) so it would be wise to create a USB Recovery Drive before deleting the recovery partition that was created by Windows
    10. I deleted the recovery partition using the Partition Wizards Mini Tool which then allowed me to extend the C: drive but when I attempted to create a USB Recovery Drive, I got an error message saying some necessary files were missing. Luckily I created
    a USB Recovery Drive just after upgrading to Windows 10. On computers with a company recovery drive (like the D: HP Recovery Drive) that has the Windows 7 recovery info, my suggestion would be to delete the Win 7 recovery partition before upgrading to Win
    10 and then the Win 10 recovery partition doesn't get in the way of using all the available disk space for the C: drive since the Win 10 recovery partition is at the end of the HDD/SSD. Otherwise you end up with a Win 10 recovery partition between the C:
    drive and D: Primary Partition aka the HP Recovery Drive with the Win 7 recovery files that prevents you from extending C into the deleted D space (unless you want to keep the Win 7 recovery files). I've never used the disk recovery partition since I would
    prefer to use the OS original media instead (if Win 10 ever has an install disk which I guess it will after the free upgrade period is over).
     
    Kenneth Goodwin, Feb 3, 2016
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  3. FunEngine Win User
    Why we have recovery directory & recovery partition in win 10 while recovery directory is empty ?

    after upgrading to win 10 , we found an empty recovery directory and recovery partition. What is the purpose of having both in the computer ?
     
    FunEngine, Feb 3, 2016
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  4. Berton Win User

    After Upgrade to Win 10 - Is Recovery Partition Useful?

    It may depend upon the procedure HP [or other maker/vendor] uses to access that partition to restore back to the day it shipped from the factory. If it was Windows-based that feature is gone. There was a prompt early on, usually in the setup phase, that suggested making the discs for doing the restore, those would be useful if having to replace the HDD/Hard Disk Drive because it failed. You'd restore using the discs then do all the required updates such as Service Pack 1 then do the free Upgrade to Win10.
     
    Berton, Feb 4, 2016
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  5. NavyLCDR New Member
    Why not just restore directly to Windows 10 due to a hard drive replacement?
     
    NavyLCDR, Feb 4, 2016
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  6. NavyLCDR New Member
    Why not get a USB flash drive about the same size as the size actually in use in that old recovery partition. Use Macrium Reflect Free to make an image file of that partition to the USB flash drive. Then you can delete the old recovery partition and make that space on the hard drive useful again. If you ever find that you need that partition or something from it again you can either restore it to hard drive using Macrium Reflect - or you can just mount it with Macrium and browse it like a regular drive if you need a specific file from it.

    I've got 3 or 4 of flash drives like that in my desk drawer - some haven't been touched in years and I might even have one for a computer I no longer have.
     
    NavyLCDR, Feb 4, 2016
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  7. cereberus Win User
    The whole point about Windows 10 is once you have upgraded and activated it, you never need to reinstall old OS and reupgrade (on same pc).
     
    cereberus, Apr 4, 2018
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