Question about recovery partitions

[nheather]

Hi,

Recently, I replaced my Samsung SATA SSD boot with a Samsung M.2 NVME boot.

I used Samsung Magician to clone the boot disk, all went well, and it is working fine since.

Now that I am happy that the NVME is working correctly, I have decided to delete the partitions and format the SATA SSD to use as a data disk, and it was here that I noticed something a little strange.

The SSD has three partitions: boot, data and recovery

The NVME has four partitions: boot, data, recovery #1 and recovery #2.

I notice that recovery #1 on the NVME is exactly the same size as the recovery on the SSD.

My theory is that it is there as part of the cloning and isn't actually needed. It's only 50MB so I'm not risking deleting it but would be interested why I ended up with two recovery partitions - is my theory correct, and it can be deleted?

 

[nlel1975]

I had a recovery partition on my macs Windows VM and it was preventing me from extending the main partition. Had to use the command line to delete it. After which I was able to extend the main partition. So in my experience they aren't needed.

 

[lord filbuster]

Not sure if it's true, but apparently sometimes windows updates recreate the partition if it isn't large enough or can't be found. Perhaps the clone process unlinked the partitions somehow, so windows added another?

You can technically delete both of them, it won't stop windows booting, but you'll lose access to the startup repair / advanced startup menu thing I think.

You can check which partition is being used in powershell - reagentc /info.