Windows 10: Recovery Partition vs System Reserved Partition

I built a WIN 10 (home version) desktop a few months back with a single SSD as its C Drive. It all works fine. Today I went to clone that drive using Samsung Data Migration.

Disk Management shows that my originating SSD has both a healthy, primary bootable (main) partition plus a 471mb healthy Recovery partition on that C drive. There is no System Reserved partition.

The cloned recipient SSD did not include the Recovery partition.That cloned drive obviously has no System Reserved partition since the source drive does not. The cloning went well but I have not yet tested the clone. Before I do I had two questions.


1. Why didn't the Recovery partition get cloned?
2. Why is there no 500mb System Reserved partition (on either) which I thought WIN 10 needed to operate?

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Recovery Partitions/System Reserved Partitions

I have Windows 10 Home Version 1803 installed in my pc.

Windows is installed on Disk 5. Disk 5 contains my C drive and D partition that I created after Windows was installed. It also contains a partition named System Reserved which Windows created when I installed Windows and a partition named Recovery Partition,
which Windows also created when I installed Windows. It was a brand new hard drive, never before used, when I installed Windows on it. Windows won't allow me to delete either of these partitions/merge them with my C or D partitions. I don't understand why
I have both a Recovery partition and a System Reserved partition. Isn't the Recovery partition something that Windows 7 used to create? I never had Windows 7.

Also, on my S drive which Windows labelled Disk 4, there is also a 468Mb Recovery partition that Windows created. I don't understand why Windows created this partition on this hard drive. It has no system files on it. Windows didn't create a Recovery
partition on any of my other hard drive. All of my hard drives are WD Caviar Black, 1T and 2T.

I know that Windows 10 Home needs a System Reserved partition but can someone explain the reason for all these other partitions? They're so small in size that I'm not concerned about the room they're taking up on the hard drives but I especially am interested
in the reason Windows created a Recovery partition on my S drive. I tried to merge the partitions but Windows wouldn't do it. I then tried EaseUS Partition Manager and it couldn't merge the partitions either.

 

Recovery Partitions/System Reserved Partitions

Hi Denise

The System Reserved partition contains the boot configuration fro Windows and should not be touched - you will brick your system if you remove that

The recovery partition to the right of your C Drive contains the Windows 10 Recovery Image that you would need should you ever need to repair or Reset Windows 10

If you right click the Recovery Partition on Disk 4, what options do you get?

 

If Recovery partition the same as System Reserved?

My former installation of Windows 7 had system reserved on a secondary hard drive (I created this partition).

I have now upgraded to Windows 10.

I notice that on the main drive (C) there is a partition named (Healthy) Recovery Partition.

Is this a new term for System Reserved?

What I'd like to know is does the old System Reserved relate only to Windows 7 and can it be safely deleted.