Windows 10: Are those 2 additional partitions safe to remove? They're both recovery partitions I think,...

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How To: Create recovery partition.

it worked when i copied all the files of the disk to the recovery partition i created, but i had to use WinPE tab to add the entry.

Type: WIM Image (Ramdisk)
Name: Recovery
Path: Z:\Sources\boot.wim
and hit Add Entry
I tried it in VirtualBox and it worked.
At first, it would add a second "Windows 7" entry to the list, but when the installation is finished, the old one is deleted. (I formatted only C: partition)

 

2 recovery partitions (BIOS)

Going back to my laptop, I noticed a weird thing: 2 recovery partitions. I thought that one of them must still be around from Windows 7. Not sure. After some work I need to do some changes to the os partition. Such a procedure requires that the partitioning
program restarts my PC to WinPE. After a file load I get an error which is definetly not in my language. I think it may be because of the Win7 Recovery Partition. I can't really guess which recovery partition is the one from 7. How would I remove the Windows
7 recovery partition without breaking my whole system?

 

Windows Recovery Partitions

I am running Windows 10 on a Lenovo Flex 3-1120. I have upgraded Windows a number of times and as such have a number of recovery partitions. I was worried about deleting any because I might remove a partition that was vital to the machine's own recovery.
After some I research I found a post at the following link:

Windows 8.1 - Why are there multiple recovery partitions in the system?

The writer suggested that the Windows recovery partitions are allocated so that the most recent is to the direct right of the C: partition in Disk Management. This seems sound and also indicates that the partitions separating my allocatable memory for partitioning
are in fact Windows recovery partitions. I am just wondering if it would be safe to delete Windows recovery partitions. If the remaining partitions are the ones used by Lenovo to reinstall Windows and drivers - I should be safe to delete them, correct? Then
when I reinstall Windows from the system recovery partition, wouldn't re-create a new recovery partition for that installation?

I thought I'd add that the three recovery partitions in question are 893 MB, 892 MB, and 892 MB, also making me think they are all created by the same software - most likely Windows operating systems. Unfortunately they are embedded in a way that keeps memory
from being partitioned, so they have to go.

MattSA