Windows 10: Multiple Numbers of "Recovery/Reserved Partitions"

I have 4 Nos of System Reserved partitions on my SSD where Windows 10 is installed.

I expect only one.

How do the extra ones come to existence?

How do I recognize which one is the latest/working one?

If I could recognize which one is the real recovery drive, how do I remove the others?

Is it safe to remove others?

I have a working backup from which I am confident, I can re-image my system.

Please see the attached partition profile of the System SSD which is an NVMe disk on M.2 slot.



Please advise.

Dr Abdul Rasheed

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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.

 

How to completely reformat a disk with reserved partitions

I upgraded to win 10 on a new SSD, everything is working fine and I have copied the data I need from the old disk (its now drive E

E: has a D: partition - the old system reserved, no longer needed. E: also has a recovery partition which has no label.

I want to remove the 2 reserved partitions and combine them back into E: - and then reformat E:

Is there a simple list of steps to do this please?

Thanks

 

W10 System Reserved Partition Error

Hi,

Have you tried all the suggestions above? If not, we suggest the resolution provided above. We also suggest that you follow the steps on this link:

“We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error installing Windows 10.

Let us know how it goes.