If it deleted the SSD Windows recovery and the platter OEM recovery, maybe it deleted the platter Windows recovery as well? There's at least one recovery partition on the platter drive besides the one (OEM 20GB) that got deleted. I figure it deleted the recovery on the SSD and also, for some reason, deleted the recovery partition on the platter drive that wasn't even 'active'. This didn't seem to work immediately after myĪdventure.
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will default to install to the machines super secret OEM partition. “Create a recovery drive” -> “Delete the recovery partition from your PC” June 24, 2021, was fixed by Microsoft to launch Win 11 Lite version after Windows 10. The May 2021 Update for Windows 10 (version 21H1) is now slowly rolling out as.
Seems to work with my restored image prior to my experiment: Settings -> Update & Security -> Recovery -> Reset this PC Still, I would've liked to archive a disk image of the platter drive including the recovery, just in case, it's only 40GB. Granted, it is very unlikely I will ever need or want any ASUS specific software in the recovery partition. *1) “Create a recovery drive” instructions here I suspect this 20 GB holds the 2013 OEM ASUS software that I don't ever expect to want to have use for again, but still I hate having lost it before being able to archive it. All as the boot options as I have restored twice, once formatting the c: drive and the other time just reinstalling the wim file over the C: drive (this created a windows.old folder) All 3 windows 10 options will boot to the restored wim and Windows loads up with no. The only thing that has touched it ever is the “Create a recovery drive” -> “Delete the recovery partition from your PC”. Windows 10 on volume 3 Windows 10 on volume 3 Windows 10 on volume 3 Recovery. Since this (20GB) partition is on the inactive platter drive I believe chances of recovery is good since it isn't being touched by anything. It went from hidden to becoming an empty lettered partition (F). Windows 10 Spring Update creating an OEM partition Good day, yesterday morning upon the release of Windows 10 Spring Update, I noticed that my computer after the update has created an OEM partition in my local disk that now appears into 'My PC' among my other HDDs. To my great surprise the old platter drive (not booted from) recovery partition was deleted despite having booted from the SSD. A mysterious new OEM partition at the SSD drive end did appear after the 1903 upgrade. I created a USB recovery stick with “Create a recovery drive” (*1) and selected “Delete the recovery partition from your PC” to find out which, if any, recovery partition had been created when I upgraded to Win 10 1903. Having SSD image backups (Macrium Reflect) I did an experiment.
My old cloned (to SSD) platter drive containing the (now deleted) recovery partition is placed in a caddy in the optical drive position. Original specs prior SSD clone & upgrade: