Hidden Recovery Partition On Windows 10

There is the first potential mistake. Having a partition with a drive letter on the new HD....

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.shtml

This applies to OS following WinXP as well.

Another concern is the clone corrupting the original OS. Then neither OS will boot. This used to happen with Ghost.

I'm sure Macrium cloning will work (if used correctly) but you have to be careful of the cloning traps. The main ones to consider are...

Have no partitions on the target HD. Entirely Free Space on the target HD and the source OS has to have seen the Free Space. Deleting the partitions offline and then immediately cloning offline is an error.
Remove the old HD before the first boot from the new HD.

I rarely use cloning. Just for tests. For my personal computers, I use images.

Edit... Terminology. Your 1TB HD is not the C: drive. The C: drive letter is assigned by Windows to that OS partition. When the computer is turned off there is no C: drive.

 

i recently bought a dell lattitude with a core i7. after upgrading the HDD i installed windows 7 64 bit pro on it. soon after that win 10 came out with their base preview and i decided to try it out. Its been about a year now and i finally got an issue with the machine where all 8 cores (4 physical = 8 logical) were locked at 100% with all apps closed. Since i have 3 other machines and was bored i figured id fix it. Thats what i thought. nothing worked. TM wouldn't open MMC (Microsoft Management Consonle) wouldnt respond. i couldnt even get a cmd window. After reboot and like 30 tried with the f8 key attempting to reach ABO (advanced boot options) it finally works and i find the option to reset this pc. Now 2 things i assosiate with this option. 1 is it is a final resort as u lose all downloaded programs. and the reason it wouldnt be the first recommendation to a customer with a second hand machine is in most cases when you get a machine off the street 9 times out of 10 the recovery partition has been deleted. And do to the fact that I formatted the HDD before i installed win 7 almost 18 months ago i know that recovery partition was long gone.
But i chose the option anyway just to see what would happen. to wrap this up and get to my question 2 hours later windows has not only restored my machine ( to windows 10 not 7) but it also generated a report of all the programs that were removed during the refresh. These are all programs that were never on this machine before I installed my programs.
Where did this recovery partition to windows 10 come from when the HDD was formatted before win 7 was installed . does win 10 automatically create its own recovery partition
?

 

I'd love to do a clean install of Windows 10 and see that you skipped entering a product key twice but that Windows 10 still activated successfully. But when I tried to burn the ISO to a standard 4.7gb DVD-R, it said there was not sufficient space on the disc? So how do you fit the ISO onto a standard 4.7gb DVD-R please?

Also, I wouldn't want to be without a recovery partition! This is because I always have a LOT of trouble trying to boot from removable media due to the secure boot system in UEFI :-/ But I have to say that even though HP's recovery partition is still on my C:drive, I never seem to be able to restore from it anyway! I

It was all so much easier before MS forced this secure boot system on us!