Windows 10: My Disk management - Sure doesn't look right to me ??

Per the attached ..my main SSD Windows drive doesn't look right...pretty sure there shouldn't be all these 'partitions' If not...how do I proceed to set this drive up properly - IE -remove unnecessary partitions/sections as are shown in jpg attached ?

Thanks....TiminAz

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Installed Windows 10. 2nd Internal hard drive not showing up.

If you still have this problem in disk management right click on the disk that doesn't show up in my computer then right click on import foreign disk and click ok it worked for me I had the same problem.

 

Can't read new micro SD card on Surface Pro 4 - says "insert disk"

Right click on the start button, select Disk Management. Do you see the SD card in the disk manager? Does it show black like it has no formatting? You might have to partition the SD disk and format it. Let me know what it say. If Disk Management does not
see it, the computer doesn't see it.

 

Hi, it is not unusual to have more than one recovery partition- in your case all these will have been (presumably!) created by different Windows installations or an in-place upgrade repair or an upgrade.

E.g. 2nd section here:
Recovery Partition After Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8

Only 1 is valid. One way to find out which one would be to hide one, then try a shift click restart and see if you have advanced recovery options available. If you have hidden the partition that is current and those options are not available, that is the partition in use, and the others can be deleted using a partition manager.

Unhide it and check again to see that you have advanced recovery options available again.

As an aside, if there's not enough unallocated space on your system disk, these partitions can end up being created on another disk. Not really desirable.

 

There is an easier way to tell which recovery partition is your active recovery partition. Right click the start icon and select Command Prompt (Admin). In the elevated command prompt window run:

reagentc /info

You'll get something like this: Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: fcaab80d-8717-11e6-843d-aa73efa5da58 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.[/quote] From my result, partition 1 is the active recovery partition. Keep in mind though...there is a hidden partition that does not show up in disk management. So, if the result of the above command says your recovery partition is Partition 5, I would install MiniTool Partition Wizard Free and see what the real 5th partition is.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Free:




Built-in Windows disk management:




See the difference? If reagentc /info says your recovery partition (Windows RE) is partition 5 - make sure and use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free and see which partition really is the 5th one.

 

Each time Windows 10 is upgraded to a new build a new recovery partition is created. These partitions are added to the end of the disk.
Manufacturers also create OEM recovery partitions which are almost always at the beginning of the disk. In your case looks like your PC has gone through one new build upgrade, I'm guessing a Windows 10 Anniversary 1607 update.

For a good rundown on these extra partitions look here: Can I delete the recovery partition? - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks Railtech and NavyLCDR......turns out reagentc /info says my recovery partition (Windows RE) is partition 5...have used MiniTool for years and will run MTPW and see what comes up ?

TiminAz

 

OK..think I have it right now...please check my jpg attached...I am assuming partition 5 is the 5th one down from the top (or left) ? Can I also delete the other two ?? partitions..leaving three partitions on the final disk ?

TiminAz

 

If it were I, I would delete the Recovery partition at the very front of the drive. Copy the 5th partition (the first recovery partition at the end of the drive) to the newly unallocated space at the beginning of the drive. Reassign the WindowsRE pointer with reagentc.exe to the first partition, then delete the two recovery partitions at the end of the drive and expand C: partition to the end.

 

OK thanks so much...looked at the reagentc.exe /commands but not sure what to use to set the copied to partition one as the new recovery partition location.

 

reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE

Code: C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /setreimage /? Sets the location of the custom Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) image. REAGENTC.EXE /setreimage /path <dir_name> [/target <dir_name>] [/logpath <file_path>] /path <dir_name> - Specifies the directory that contains the custom Windows RE image (winre.wim). /target <dir_name> - Specifies the Windows installation. If this argument is not specified, the running operating system is used. /logpath <file_path> - Specifies the path of log file. If this argument is not specified, the default path is Windows\Logs\ Reagent\Reagent.log. Example: REAGENTC.EXE /setreimage /path r:\Recovery\WindowsRE /logpath C:\Temp\Reagent.log REAGENTC.EXE /setreimage /path r:\Recovery\WindowsRE /target C:\Windows REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: fcaab811-8717-11e6-843d-aa73efa5da58 Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition3\Sources Recovery image index: 1 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.[/quote]

 

And be certain to capture a disk image before attempting anything

 

Ok...having an issue assigning the new location with the newly copied Reserve partition (now Disk 1 - 1st in order - in MT Wizard attached

Getting the following error in administrator CMD screen:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image cannot be stored in the specified volume. Use the RETAIN command in DISKPART to prepare the volume and try again.

My guess is wrong parameters in my CMD command ???

 

Thanks for the syntax details, NavyLCDR. A good example is worth a lot.
--Ed--

 

Open Command Prompt (admin). Run:

diskpart
list disk
select <disk number> - probably going to be zero - you want the disk number of the physical drive we are working on.
list part
select part <partition number> - the partition number of what should be the recovery partition - probably going to be 1
set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
exit
exit

Code: C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.14393.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: JOHN-LAPTOP DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 447 GB 0 B * Disk 1 Online 931 GB 2048 KB * Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list part Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Recovery 450 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 System 100 MB 451 MB Partition 3 Reserved 16 MB 551 MB Partition 4 Primary 446 GB 567 MB DISKPART> select part 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC DiskPart successfully set the partition ID. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart...[/quote] Then try the reagentc command again.