Windows 10: Question re: Recovery partitions, Macrium

My project is to clone my HDD C: to a new, larger SSD. I think I have things pretty well figured out, but I am not comfortable with the situation in my current Recovery Partition. Below is a pic of my current partitioning scheme.





As far as I can figure out, the partitions purposes are as follows (correct me if I'm wrong):
1- This appears to me to be the original, Lenovo OEM Win 8 recovery partition and is obsolete now that I am on W10 1909.
2- Windows "System" partition.
3- The MS Reserved partition.
4- My W10 O/S partition.
5- One of my Data partitions
6- Another Data partition
7- This one is a bit of a mystery. It is "explorable" with EaseUS, however shows absolutely no content. My conclusions is that it is an abandoned Recovery partition that got created somewhere through the updates from Win 8 to 8.1, to various updates to Win 10.
8- This is my current Recovery Partition. It is over 8g in size which is ridiculous.
In exploring it with EaseUS, it appears that when this one got created they created a folder named "Recovery" with a subfolder called "WindowsRE" and this is the current MS Windows recover environment.
However it appears that they pulled along the contents of the old Lenovo OEM Recovery partition which are in a folder named "Recovery Image" with a subfolder named "Lenovo." All of the files here are dated like 2013 and this is where the disk consumption is occurring. Install.wim is 6gb and there is one called wdrive.zip at 450mb. I'm pretty sure all of this stuff is Windows 8, so I don't need any of that.

I think I want to have a (MS) Recovery Partition, however I want to get rid of that "Recovery Image" folder, as Lenovo's recovery crap does me no good since it is Win8 and is consuming several gb's of space.

Does anyone have any direction on how I can do that? With UEFI/GPT I don't think you can assign a drive letter to the partition anymore to possibly maintain the contents of the partition.

Thanks in advance!

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Macrium Boot Question

Macrium Boot Question

I use Windows 10 and a Macrium recovery program. My BIOS is set where the optical disk for CDs and DVDs are not set to recognize a CD/DVD disc as the first priority to boot from.

What are the steps I should take to make my Macrium Rescue Disk as being first to boot from?

Thanks,

Jerry

 

Lost recovery partition

Hello, I see that you are having issues with recovery partition. I would suggest you using the diskpart command in the command prompt. First, open up the comand prompt as an administrator, then type in diskpart. Now, type in list disk, and look for the
recovery partition drive. Follow the steps in the link below:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-fo...

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have further questions!

 

How To: Create recovery partition.

it worked when i copied all the files of the disk to the recovery partition i created, but i had to use WinPE tab to add the entry.

Type: WIM Image (Ramdisk)
Name: Recovery
Path: Z:\Sources\boot.wim
and hit Add Entry
I tried it in VirtualBox and it worked.
At first, it would add a second "Windows 7" entry to the list, but when the installation is finished, the old one is deleted. (I formatted only C: partition)