Why are there two Winre.wim on my Windows 10?

[Matthew Wai]

Last month I performed clean installation of Windows 10, during which I did not delete the recovery partition created when Windows 10 was installed last year but deleted the Windows partition (drive C).

I just found that there are two Winre.wim on my computer. The new one in the Windows partition is 325.0MB, and the old one in the recovery partition is 343.4MB.

Why did Windows still create the new one when the old one was still there?
Can the recovery partition be deleted?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

A new recovery image was created with the second installation because Windows Setup has no way of knowing that one already exists, you can safely delete the older one.

 

[SkyNetRising]

MS has redesigned reset/recovery feature. It no longer requires separate recovery partition in win10.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/windows-10-will-return-up-to-15gb-of-hard-drive-space-to-pc-users

 

[Matthew Wai]

Phillip Corcoran and SkyNetRising, do you mean I can safely delete the recovery partition?

 

[SkyNetRising]

That's right.