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If I upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, does it also update the recovery partition used by my previous version of Windows? The upgrade was the free upgrade offered through Microsoft.
Thanks
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Short answer: No
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You can follow along here.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-a-recovery-drive-abb4691b-5324-6d4a-8766-73fab304c246
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I left out that the "recovery partition" is on my C: Drive. Is that recovery partition on the C drive now going to be Win 11 Files or Win 10. If it is Win 10 files can it be safely deleted. I did make a Recovery Disk on a USB Drive.
Thanks
The recovery Partition shows up in Disk Management on Drive C:
You can't have a partition within another partition. Maybe a screenshot?
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Nothing
Just checking if there's any progress or updates?
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Maybe you meant windows.old? Approximately 10 days after you upgrade to Windows 11, your previous version of Windows will be automatically deleted from your PC.
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When Windows is upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 it will update the recovery partition.
Windows recovery partitions are present to allow the computer user to use the Windows Recovery Environment (RE).
A Windows recovery partition is not needed.
A bootable Windows iso can be used instead of a Windows recovery partition.
Alternatively a backup image can be restored instead of using Windows RE.
Open disk management: (by default there are compressed rows and columns with characters that are cutoff)
a) Widen these rows: disk 0, disk 1, disk 2, etc. > make sure that no characters are cutoff
b) Widen these columns: Status and Volume > make sure that no characters are cutoff
Post images or share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2503-how-post-screenshot-disk-management.html
These are all diagnostic commands to check the disk drive partitions.
Open administrative command prompt and copy and paste: (all at one time)
bcdedit
reagentc /info
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel par 7
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel par 7
det par
sel dis 2
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
Post a share link into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive.
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