Windows 10: help required to delete the extra recovery partition

I had purchased an HP laptop that came with windows 8. This was upgraded online to v 8.1 and then to windows 10 and subsequently to the feature updates of Windows 10.

When checking (yesterday) with disk management I found there were three recovery partitions apart from the three disk storage partitions that i work with and one more for the UEFI tools.

I have deleted the HP OEM recovery partition as that facility was built into the HP recovery manager options and I would probably never be returning to a win 8 installation. By default the space freed up was added to my last partition automatically

I need to help to delete the other partition(s) after being sure that my recovery environment tools and winre.wim file is safe and usuable.

One question here: If I can boot into the windows recovery environment does it means that my winre.wim file is usuable and safe?

This is what disk management in windows shows (I have only one disk)








This is what diskpart command in admin run Powershell shows as the list of partitions




As you can see there is one more 128 MB partion seen (named Reserved) in diskpart and not seen in windows disk management

reagentc /info points the location of the recovery file to the disk0 partition4 i.e. the system partition disk (C drive) where the OS is installed.
Is this possible?
I always thought the winRe file and the recovery environment resides on an adjacent partition

Please help me to decide whether I can delete the other two partitions named recovery?

Also what is that 128MB partition (no 3) just before the system partition?

I am changing to an SSD disk and wish to know which partitions to image and restore to the new SSD drive

Thank you very much for guidance and answers on these issues. I am reasonable familiar with PCs and software but not a genius!

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How to recover files off a HDD from a deleted partition? help!!!

Thanks for your reply. I used my m8s program and it worked like a dream, recovered all the files and also deleted ones from yrs back, was amazed how well it did. Next step is i will use that Partition Table Doctor to recover the deleted partition. Thanks for the link *Toast :toast:

 

Will deleting the factory partition render the recovery disk useless?

More than likely it is of no use NOW . The recovery disk is nothing more than drivers and some BS . You will not get the OS and recovering from a recovery disk only works if the drive partition is fine and has been untouched by any one .
The best thing to do is delete all the partitions and just install windows on the HDD make your own recovery disk and your done not to mention you get all that drive space back .

 

How to delete the partition after creating a recovery drive on Windows 10?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about deleting the recovery partition after creating a recovery drive. We will help you with this issue.

I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps to delete the recovery partition from Command Prompt and check if it helps.

I suggest you to log-in as an administrator with Microsoft account, try the below and check if it helps.

• Press Windows + X keys from the keyboard, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin)
• Type: diskpart
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk (Make note of the disk number of the disk from which you want to delete the partition.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: select diskn (Select the disk
  n from which you want to delete the partition.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition (Make note of the number of the partition that you want to delete.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: select partition (Select the partition
  n that you want to delete.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: delete partition

Caution

• 
  Deleting a partition on a dynamic disk can delete all dynamic volumes on the disk, thus leaving the disk in a corrupt state. To delete a dynamic volume, use the
  delete volume command instead. For instructions on how to delete a dynamic volume, see Related Topics.
  
• 
  When you delete a partition, all data on that deleted partition or logical drive is lost.
  
• 
  You cannot recover deleted partitions or logical drives.
  

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue, we will be happy to assist you further.