Question Windows 11 Clean Installation - Why is there a Recovery Partition?

[kohck]

I replace my old WD SDD with a brand new Samsung 990 Pro M2.2280 2TB (straight out of the box) into my Lenovo ThinkBook 14 2-in-1 G4 IML. During the installation process, it did not prompt me for my Windows 11 License Key. The laptop was also unable to connect to the internet (but i managed to skip this step).

I installed Windows 11 into the unallocated space on my SSD. There are no parition. After the installation, besides the C Drive that was automatically created, there is a EFI System Partition (100 MB in size) and a Recovery Partition (768 MB in size).

Question: Why is there a a Recovery Partition? Could i delete the partition and extend my C Drive into the unallocated space using native windows tools? I remember that the last time i do a clean installation of Windows 10 on another laptop, there is no Recovery Partition. Why is there a Recovery Partition now? Did i mis-perform any steps?

 

[USAFRet]

Question: Why is there a a Recovery Partition? Could i delete the partition and extend my C Drive into the unallocated space using native windows tools? I remember that the last time i do a clean installation of Windows 10 on another laptop, there is no Recovery Partition. Why is there a Recovery Partition now? Did i mis-perform any steps?

How large is this Recovery Partition?

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

 

[zinkles]

I replace my old WD SDD with a brand new Samsung 990 Pro M2.2280 2TB (straight out of the box) into my Lenovo ThinkBook 14 2-in-1 G4 IML. During the installation process, it did not prompt me for my Windows 11 License Key. The laptop was also unable to connect to the internet (but i managed to skip this step).

I installed Windows 11 into the unallocated space on my SSD. There are no parition. After the installation, besides the C Drive that was automatically created, there is a EFI System Partition (100 MB in size) and a Recovery Partition (768 MB in size).

Question: Why is there a a Recovery Partition? Could i delete the partition and extend my C Drive into the unallocated space using native windows tools? I remember that the last time i do a clean installation of Windows 10 on another laptop, there is no Recovery Partition. Why is there a Recovery Partition now? Did i mis-perform any steps?

having the recovery partition is not a big issue. infact not an issue at all.
not having it is an issue if you need to access recovery to reset pc and stuff.

recommended to leave it as is. ~700mb anyway.

 

[kohck]

How large is this Recovery Partition?

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

After the installation, besides the C Drive that was automatically created, there is a EFI System Partition (100 MB in size) and a Recovery Partition (768 MB in size).

The forum cannot paste screen capture.

 

[USAFRet]

After the installation, besides the C Drive that was automatically created, there is a EFI System Partition (100 MB in size) and a Recovery Partition (768 MB in size).

And that 768MB is likely less than 0.1% of the actual drive space.
(depending on what drive you're using)

Just leave it.
If you were to remove it, the next semi-annual Windows Update will just recreate it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Question: Why is there a a Recovery Partition? Could i delete the partition

Recovery partition houses recovery environment.
It can be used to diagnose/troubleshoot boot issues and file system errors and run system restore and run recovery from previously saved drive image.

Anyway - all that functionality is available by using windows installation media too.
Yes. You can delete recovery partition, if you want to.

 

[ubuysa]

The Recovery Partition contains the WinRE environment that is booted if you need to boot the recovery environment. It's not essential but without it your recovery options are limited. This site contains full details of the Recovery Partition.