Windows 10: Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD

Discus and support Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; I have a feeling this has been asked before and the answer is “Just leave it, it doesn’t matter” I notice the recovery partition on my SSD is always... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by MRushbrooke, May 24, 2016.

  1. Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD


    I have a feeling this has been asked before and the answer is “Just leave it, it doesn’t matter”

    I notice the recovery partition on my SSD is always reporting as “Never run” and “Needs optimizing”
    If you chose to optimize it does nothing.


    Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD [​IMG]


    Any advice on this please?

    :)
     
    MRushbrooke, May 24, 2016
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  2. Windows 10 Defrag

    Hopefully I'm in the proper category.

    I have Windows 10 and was wondering how one can defrag & optimize the HDD. Though I do not have an SSD installed on my system, it lists my HDD partitions (OS, HP recovery partition, System, Office Click to Run partition) as SSDs. Both the Analyze and Optimize
    buttons are greyed, so I cannot manually initiate a defrag. It is set-up for an automatic weekly defrag. But, how can I run a manual defrag or do I have to set-up as a separate task? I have read the other threads on the defrag issue and none provide a proper
    answer.

    I am using Windows 10 (version 1607/anniversary).

    Thanks,

    David
     
    Doc-Westin, May 24, 2016
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  3. Remove Recovery Partition and Go to Recovery Drive During HDD to SSD Upgrade

    Thank you Sangeeta,

    "delete the recovery partition as part of the cloning of the HDD to the SSD" The meaning of this quote is as follows:

    The recovery partition on the HDD will NOT be copied onto the SSD. This differs from most other data on the HDD which will be copied over onto the SSD. The word cloning is used because the emphasis is on having a functioning system on the SSD that truly
    mimics the system that ran on the HDD. Just as a biological clone is the creation of an identical organism with the same behavior.

    The specific SSD I have is a Samsung 850 EVO with 250 GB capacity. It comes with migration software. Further study on my part discovered the following from the migration software user guide "OEM Recovery partition created by the computer manufacturer as
    a factory setting will not be cloned". So, Samsung does not carry the recovery partition across to the SSD - just as I wanted.

    So, the SSD won't have the 16 GB recovery partition that the HDD had. Incidentally, Acer documentation says that if a new drive is installed, the ability to go back to the "original build factory settings" will be lost. So, they anticipated the loss if
    the drive was replaced. And this is fine by me since I do not want to go back to Windows 7.

    The bottom line is that the SSD won't have the recovery partition; I need to create a recovery drive once I have upgraded to the SSD. (I think it is best to create the recovery drive after the SSD is installed since there are subtle differences between
    the SSD and HDD and the recovery tools should reflect the SSD.)
     
    Edmond Danta, May 24, 2016
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  4. NavyLCDR New Member

    Optimizing the Recovery Partition on a SSD

    Try not to let it bother you. It's just a quirk in Windows 10. There is no need to optimize the recovery partition.
     
    NavyLCDR, May 24, 2016
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  5. Ahh ok, thanks for replying.
     
    MRushbrooke, May 24, 2016
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  6. NavyLCDR New Member
    The recovery partition gets written to once, when Windows gets installed, and it only gets read from when you restart to the recovery menu. The only reason it is listed as "needing optimation" is because Windows never optimizes it because it is excluded due to being a recovery partition.
     
    NavyLCDR, May 24, 2016
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  7. fdegrove Win User
    Hi,

    TS may want to turn on automatic optimization though.

    Cheers, *Wink
     
    fdegrove, Apr 4, 2018
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