11-13-2017, 08:05 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2017, 08:06 PM by PCfreak.)
Hello everyone,
A question about recovery partitions.
When I bought my current PC (Acer Aspire) in 2014, it was preinstalled with Windows 8 OS. No official Windows CD-ROM was included.
Should problems occur, they should be solved by means of the 'Acer Recovery Management' console.
In October 2016, the free "Windows 10 home" upgrade was performed.
In my view, it's pointless to keep that recovery partition even longer !!
Can I just delete it?
And there is another problem.
If I open disk management, I can not make changes even though I'm logged on as administrator !!
Recovery partitions are great if your computer is under a year old or you are not tech savvy enough to know how to load your own OS yourself. If your computer is 3 or 4 years old and then You use the recovery partition you now have 3 or 4 years worth of updates to deal with.
(11-13-2017, 10:31 PM)Timster Wrote: Recovery partitions are great if your computer is under a year old or you are not tech savvy enough to know how to load your own OS yourself. If your computer is 3 or 4 years old and then You use the recovery partition you now have 3 or 4 years worth of updates to deal with.
That' s my point. I don't want to return to Windows 8.x
Every 2 weeks a make an System IMAGE-backup using "EasUS ToDo Backup" and "Macrium Reflect7" (since last weekend).
So in case of disaster I hope one of both will help me out of troubles.
But both incorporate the old recovery partition into the image, which is actually superfluous.
11-14-2017, 05:56 PM (This post was last modified: 11-14-2017, 05:59 PM by LarryTheComputerGuy.)
If it's that important to have as much free space as possible, and since you have images of the drive (Verified I hope). You could go into the BIOS and turn off UEFI, then do a fresh install of Windows 10.
Recovery Partitions can be recreated if you have to wipe the whole drive.
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