Windows 10: Windows has a recovery partition on an HDD that doesn't have windows installed

Discus and support Windows has a recovery partition on an HDD that doesn't have windows installed in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Greeting and thanks in advance, My friend has recently bought an MSI gaming laptop, It has an SSD(Windows is on this) and an HDD when unboxed we... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/aproximategamer, Jul 12, 2020.

  1. Windows has a recovery partition on an HDD that doesn't have windows installed


    Greeting and thanks in advance,

    My friend has recently bought an MSI gaming laptop, It has an SSD(Windows is on this) and an HDD when unboxed we checked the partition and found out that windows as a healthy recovery partition on the HDD, Is it safe to delete the partition?

    My guessing is that Windows was first installed on the HDD and then the laptop was upgraded by MSI to boot from the SSD, and they forgot to remove this partition?

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    /u/aproximategamer, Jul 12, 2020
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  2. W1zzard Win User

    W7 Hard drive partition issue

    to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

    - press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
    - diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
    - list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
    - select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
    - clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
    - create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
    - exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
    - click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that
     
    W1zzard, Jul 12, 2020
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  3. INSTG8R Win User
    Problem installing windows 7 from recovery dvd's

    Well then Jetsters cloning idea might be the way to go. You can use the actual recovery partition to install. I'm not familiar with that ASUS AI program. It must be a laptop thing.
     
    INSTG8R, Jul 12, 2020
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  4. Windows has a recovery partition on an HDD that doesn't have windows installed

    Boot windows installation within a partition?

    Damnit, I knew thats what you wanted with your first post! I deleted my post because JMCSLOB confused me lol.


    Hm, if you Follow this guide (Replace words "flash driive" with 160GB hard drive) How to Create a Bootable Windows 7 or Vista USB Drive for both partitions and then to do a dummy install of windows 8 on the last part of the HDD it should give you the option to boot Windows 7/8 Installer or boot into windows 8.
    Edit: On step 4 you will want to make sure you size the partition correctly... or you can use the windows gui tool in control panel.


    Once you get that far you can just delete windows 8 from the boot menu using MSCONFIG and delete the partition.
     
    slyfox2151, Jul 12, 2020
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