I just noticed that I now have two recovery partitions. Maybe it was created with the creators update. Does anyone else have more than one recovery partition? Do you remove one, or just leave it?
From the PowerShell, you can use the command reagentc /info to check which is the "valid" recovery partition (the one that contains the WinRE). You can delete the other recovery partition, but it´s not necessary and nothing happens if you keep the two. Maybe the next upgrade will create another one.
Since the one created at the end of your Windows C: partition is the new one (Partition 3 a 478mB), Disk Mgmt should allow you to <right-click> the one at the end of your disk (the"old" REOVERY 450mB) and offer you a DELETE option. Be advised, that if you're using an imaging application to protect your System, the next time it runs may give you trouble as the entire Geometry of your System has changed since the last time it ran (smaller Windows C: partition as well as a newly sized RECOVERY partition).
Hadron, To make it neat (if you want to) I'd delete the second Recovery partition, slide the remaining Recovery partition to the end of the drive and resize the Win10 partition to remove the unallocated free space.
I deleted the second recovery partition with Minitool Partition Wizard, and moved the remaining recovery partition to end of the drive so I could extend my drive into the unallocated free space. I tried to extend the drive into the unallocated free space, but Minitool Partition Wizard said it couldn't do it as it was in use, and it offered me an option to reboot. So, I decided to use Disk Management to extend the drive into the unallocated free space which it did without any problem and without needing to reboot. This is how it looks now. Is the recovery partition normally at the end like this or should I move it over to the left? Thanks for all your help, guys.
I just ran reagentc /info again, and this is what I get. So, I guess I don't have a working recovery partition now even though it is still in the same location.
Have an image backup before doing this... reagentc /disable reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE reagentc /enable reagentc /info
Brian. Before I do that, do you think that maybe a restart would fix it? I haven't restarted since doing the partition work. By the way, I am doing an IFW image right now.
Just one other thing that I noticed, and this was like this even before I started messing with the partitions. It says that the recovery partition is Disk 0 partition 3, but System Reserved doesn't say Disk 0 partition 1.
I was previously thinking of moving it over beside the system reserved partition in the early stages of deciding what to do the additional recovery partition.
That's a lot of work for no benefit. Probably over an hour as you would have to slide the OS partition after deleting the Recovery partition.
If a Volume has a Drive letter or a Label (eg (C: ), System Reserved) it doesn't get a Partition number in Disk Management. Out of interest, run TBOSDT as an Admin... list hd 0 /f /u /a=2048 You will see the TeraByte partition numbers.