Windows 10: HiddenRecovery Drive is Primary and System after Upgrade to Windows 10

I recently upgraded my older HP desktop to Windows 10 from 7 on one of our office computers.
I did not notice prior to upgrade that there was a hidden partition on the system drive which held recovery files to restore Win 7 in case of a crash.
Unfortunately that partition also was primary, active and system.
The upgrade was uneventful except for the Windows 10 being MBR instead of GPT.
The computers bios will boot UEFI so I converted the system to GPT using the tool from Creators Edition (mbr2gpt)
All is well except for the fact that the 1st partition on the system drive is the old recovery partion (4GB) followed by the OS partition (C) which is then followed by the Windows 10 recovery partition (Yes 2 recovery partitions) followed by the EFI partition. If I delete the 4gb hidden partition with diskpart the system will not boot.
Question:
Is there a way to make the hidden 4gb recovery partition visible so that I can transfer the boot record to the OS partition? This EFI stuff is very confusing as I know the boot region needs to also be copied to the EFI partition.
If the partition can then be deleted is there a way to extend forward the OS partition to recapture the 4GB?
Should I just live with it as is and forgo the 4gb of space? That's how the computer was for 5 years except the recovery information in that space is now useless.

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Windows 10 upgrade rant..

The free space shouldn't prevent you from upgrading to built 1607. I manually upgraded my own laptop which had only 9gigs free space left on the system drive.

I unzipped the Windows 10 Pro anniversary edition ISO on my D drive, and started the upgrade process from there. At one point the installer complained about not having enough free space on the main drive, i just had to point it to the D drive to proceed to the next step. Now the rollback installation is stored there and doesn't clog up the C drive anymore.

In your case you could insert a large sdcard to act as the required rollback drive, i'm pretty sure it would do the trick.

Oh and by the way, if you want to further compress your System files:

• do a search Command Prompt, right-click it, and select Run as administrator.
• Type COMPACT.EXE /CompactOS:always and hit Enter.

You'll will gain anything from 2 to 4 gigs free space after it's done.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.