Has anyone noticed that each Windows build adds a separate Win RE (Recovery Partition) when upgrading, while not removing the old one? ht*p://i.imgur.com/HWPXKAO.png This is on a pc that had Win 8.1 -> Insider preview -> RTM -> and again Insider previews. Any way to remove the extraneous WIN RE partitions?
Thank you. I just tried this to delete my two recovery partitions: 01. Run Command Prompt (Admin) 02. diskpart > Enter 03. list disk > Enter 04. select disk 0 > Enter 05. list partition > Enter 06. Write down all Recovery partition numbers. e.g. partition 4: 820 Mb partition 5: 783 MB 07. select partition 4 > Enter 08. delete partition override > Enter 09. Repeat step 7 and 8 until all target recovery partitions been deleted 10. exit > Enter 11. Go to disk management and take care of them
Ok, but how do we know which Recover/RE partition to leave available? Each build gets a different recovery partition. I'd rather not delete the RE partition if something catastrophic happens and I dont have the ISO on hand.
From an admin command prompt you could: Code: reagentc /info That will show you the path (disk & partition). You could also have a look at the BCD: Code: bcdedit /enum all |more