Removing duplicate recovery partition

[octafish]

I've installed Windows 11 onto a new build PC, it seems that the C drive has two recovery partitions - diskpart info below:

Partition ### Type Size Offset
Partition 1 Recovery 450MB 1024KB
Partition 2 System 100MB 451MB
Partition 3 Reserved 16MB 551MB
Partition 4 Primary 1861GB 567MB
Partition 5 Recovery 642MB 1862GB

Is it possible to remove Partition 1 and just have a single recovery partition?

 

[octafish]

Thanks, yes diskpart is the bees knees, in fact as I'd just installed W11 onto an existing NVMe drive I just did a re-install, and deleted all partitions of the drive during install.

 

[octafish]

The story I heard was that originally the recovery partition was the first; when subsequently it was not big enough for later releases it was added at the end, where resizing would be easier. But the original partition remained as its harder to reclaim that space without moving everything else around. Not sure if this is a true story but it sounded plausible.