What is /dev/sda4 at the end of my drive?

Question

Hi All,

Windows 11 Pro 22H2

What is /dev/sda4 at the end of my drive?

Answer 1

Hi,

Also have a look at https://www.fonedog.com/data-recovery/windows-10-recovery-partition.html

Regards
M

Answer 2

It look like it is a "Windows recovery environment". Exactly what is a "Windows recovery environment"?

(This is Fedora Linux)

sfdisk /dev/sda -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 125829120 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: AA20003C-A3D4-40FD-AE52-C7BE154FCBBE

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 239616 124530687 124291072 59.3G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 124530688 125822975 1292288 631M Windows recovery environment

Answer 3

Good day @Todd Chester ,

Trust you are well, this would seem to be your recovery drive. Please have a look at the below link for further information. Please mark as answered if satisfied.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/635487/is-it-safe-to-remove-diag-flagged-partitions

Regards
M

Answer 4

Theunissen-2934 · 1 hour ago

Hi,

Also have a look at https://www.fonedog.com/data-recovery/windows-10-recovery-partition.html

Regards
M

Was the answer I was looking for. Since it was a comment, I can not accept it as the answer, even though it was,.

Answer 5

Hi,

Also have a look at https://www.fonedog.com/data-recovery/windows-10-recovery-partition.html

Regards
M