Windows 10: Could the system reserved partition and the recovery partition windows made during install...

So I had to restore my system with a clean install I was unable to restore an image from my old hard drive there are now 3 drives windows tries to include in the image those drives are of course the main drive C partitions of 500GB with 399GB free there's a system reserve drive of 50Mb and a 509Mb system recovery partition. Do I have to somehow try and increase these 2 small partitions before windows can image the drive? The system reserved drive has 20Mb free the system recovery drive I can't seem to pull the properties up so I have no idea how much space is there. The error message says ther

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Recovery Partitions/System Reserved Partitions

I have Windows 10 Home Version 1803 installed in my pc.

Windows is installed on Disk 5. Disk 5 contains my C drive and D partition that I created after Windows was installed. It also contains a partition named System Reserved which Windows created when I installed Windows and a partition named Recovery Partition,
which Windows also created when I installed Windows. It was a brand new hard drive, never before used, when I installed Windows on it. Windows won't allow me to delete either of these partitions/merge them with my C or D partitions. I don't understand why
I have both a Recovery partition and a System Reserved partition. Isn't the Recovery partition something that Windows 7 used to create? I never had Windows 7.

Also, on my S drive which Windows labelled Disk 4, there is also a 468Mb Recovery partition that Windows created. I don't understand why Windows created this partition on this hard drive. It has no system files on it. Windows didn't create a Recovery
partition on any of my other hard drive. All of my hard drives are WD Caviar Black, 1T and 2T.

I know that Windows 10 Home needs a System Reserved partition but can someone explain the reason for all these other partitions? They're so small in size that I'm not concerned about the room they're taking up on the hard drives but I especially am interested
in the reason Windows created a Recovery partition on my S drive. I tried to merge the partitions but Windows wouldn't do it. I then tried EaseUS Partition Manager and it couldn't merge the partitions either.

 

Recovery Partition vs System Reserved Partition

Thanks for all the info guys.

Both original & target SSD's are listed as MBR as opposed to UEFI. I may have created a partition unknowingly in getting the original/new unformatted drive recognized, but I don't recall taking any steps that Windows did not step me through.

Not that an upgrade to WIN 10 Pro is contemplated, but I suspect that having no System Reserved partition will not allow that to happen, after seeing how the original WIN 10 upgrade created a problem for some WIN 7 users that had a smaller 100mb vs 500mb System Reserved partition.

 

Recovery Partitions/System Reserved Partitions

Hi Denise

The System Reserved partition contains the boot configuration fro Windows and should not be touched - you will brick your system if you remove that

The recovery partition to the right of your C Drive contains the Windows 10 Recovery Image that you would need should you ever need to repair or Reset Windows 10

If you right click the Recovery Partition on Disk 4, what options do you get?