A question about recovery partitions

[PCfreak]

Hello everyone,

A question about recovery partitions.
When I bought my current PC (Acer Aspire) in 2014, it was preinstalled with Windows 8 OS. No official Windows CD-ROM was included.
Should problems occur, they should be solved by means of the 'Acer Recovery Management' console.
In October 2016, the free "Windows 10 home" upgrade was performed.
In my view, it's pointless to keep that recovery partition even longer !!
Can I just delete it?

And there is another problem.
If I open disk management, I can not make changes even though I'm logged on as administrator !!

Thanks in advance
Hubert

[Compton]

yes you can delete Acer recovery partition

[PCfreak]

(11-13-2017, 08:18 PM)Compton Wrote:  yes you can delete Acer recovery partition

Not within Disk Management !!

I think it has to do with the user rights set by the Acer Recovery Management software

See, the recovery partitions and EFi partitions (one may not delete) are not editable

And ...there is a second recovery partition (to the far right) ! Could this one been created during the win 10 upgrade ???

[WinXPto10]

you should probably keep recovery partition

just in case something happens, you can revert back to windows 8.1

[Timster]

Recovery partitions are great if your computer is under a year old or you are not tech savvy enough to know how to load your own OS yourself. If your computer is 3 or 4 years old and then You use the recovery partition you now have 3 or 4 years worth of updates to deal with.

[Compton]

yes that recovery partition to the far right is used to reinstall win10

so I would keep it

[PCfreak]

(11-13-2017, 10:31 PM)Timster Wrote:  Recovery partitions are great if your computer is under a year old or you are not tech savvy enough to know how to load your own OS yourself. If your computer is 3 or 4 years old and then You use the recovery partition you now have 3 or 4 years worth of updates to deal with.

That' s my point. I don't want to return to Windows 8.x
Every 2 weeks a make an System IMAGE-backup using "EasUS ToDo Backup" and "Macrium Reflect7" (since last weekend).
So in case of disaster I hope one of both will help me out of troubles.
But both incorporate the old recovery partition into the image, which is actually superfluous.

[LarryTheComputerGuy]

If it's that important to have as much free space as possible, and since you have images of the drive (Verified I hope). You could go into the BIOS and turn off UEFI, then do a fresh install of Windows 10.

[PCfreak]

After reading the info below about Push Button Reset, it seems logical to me not to delete the recovery partition.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/push-button-reset-overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/how-push-button-reset-features-work
https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1014743/#

[Britec]

Recovery Partitions can be recreated if you have to wipe the whole drive.