Windows 10: Why do I have two recovery partitions?

I check out my partitioning scheme and I see something odd:

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Wait why do I have two recovery partitions?

It's been a while since I last checked my partitioning scheme, but I don't recall ever seeing two recovery partitions... except for now.

It seems even more weird that the second recovery partition is after and not before the C partition (the 230GB one).

I dual boot Windows + Linux. If I can trust my memory, when I was installing Linux, I put Linux partitions right after the Windows C partition (there was not an intermediate second recovery partition).

If I can trust my memory, the history of partitioning schemes on this laptop is more or less as follows:

1. Laptop comes with Win10 preinstalled, partitioning scheme: Recovery, UEFI (shown by diskpart as System), Reserved (not sure about the order), then the C partition filling the rest of the disk.
2. I install Linux, so I shorten the Windows C partition and put Linux stuff afterwards.
3. The second recovery partition mysteriously appears between the Windows C partition and Linux stuff.

Why did this partition appear? I don't really like if my computer does something I cannot explain. My best bet is that at some point for mysterious reasons Windows decided it needed more space for recovery so it shortened the C partition on its own (why did it take disk space away without asking me first...? as you can see the disk is not too large so I'm not really fond of seeing my partitions shortened for no apparent reasons) and put its recovery partition afterwards.

Even more importantly: This recovery partition is annoying because it makes it difficult to reallocate disk space between windows and linux. Before this second partition had appeared, I would had just shortened / extended the Windows C partition as needed. Now I'm not sure what to do. Am I allowed to move this second recovery partition a few GBs in this or that direction? Am I allowed to just get rid of it, since its annoying?





(winver shows 2004)

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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)

 

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!

 

Recovery Partition in Windows 10.0

Hello,

To create a Recovery Partition, follow the steps below:

• Click Start menu.
• Type Recovery then choose Create a recovery drive.

Plug in an empty USB stick and follow the instructions that will be shown on the screen.

Regards.