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Sumit K
Issue 1:
I had purchased a Windows 8 installation with my Dell laptop, i upgraded it to windows 8.1, and later to windows 10 when it was initially released. But at that time, it was riddled with bugs, so i reverted back to windows 8 and continued to use 8 without any upgrades. (I had low demands)
I now reinstalled Windows 10 recently since my disk was showing 100% usage and i thought it might be related to old drivers. It's better after the installation.
With the backstory of my previous Installations on my PC before you, i present the present partitions.
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 OEM 40 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 541 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 490 MB 669 MB
Partition 5 Primary 98 GB 1159 MB
Partition 6 Recovery 555 MB 99 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 451 MB 99 GB
Partition 8 Recovery 450 MB 100 GB
Partition 9 Recovery 350 MB 100 GB
Partition 10 Primary 420 GB 501 GB
Partition 11 Recovery 9 GB 921 GB
As can be seen i have multiple partitions on my Disk.
Also if anyone is curious I still need to reallocate 400G of partition space that i had to unallocate, as i thought it was the culprit for the 100% disk usage.
Upon going through a few forums topics i realize that Windows 10 creates recovery partitions for advanced troubleshoot options. But since i may have some deprecated recovery partitions which do not serve any purpose i would want to remove them.
Though the forum do provide Information about what the problem is, but the process of how to remove these partitions seemed lost on me.
It seemed to me I should be safe to remove partitions 7,8 and 9 but i would like a second informed opinion.
Some people said that the initial recovery partition (partition 4 in my case) may still be under use for boot by the system so should not be removed.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition6\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 31c6170e-a0a7-11ea-8b00-a2ef7dfd79e3
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition11\DELL\Image
Recovery image index: 1
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
If someone could help me figure this out it would be helpful.
Issue 2:
While using my windows 8.1, a few years back i installed ubuntu on a separate partition, to test out it's working. I messed up the configuration setting on that somehow, so i removed the partition on which i installed ubuntu. I do not remember if i did anything else besides that to remove it. but I think it wasn't removed properly as the option to boot into ubuntu still is visible during boot if i press F12 to show boot options.
Can this be removed? Would i need to edit the bootloader? If so, how? and is it safe to edit such?
I think i saw a tutorial somewhere asking to make the bootloader partition visible and then removing the entries for the deprecated OS, but it did not provide information as to how to make the bootloader not be visible in the explorer again.
Thanks for reading the Issues.
I apologize, for this question has already been asked, but as i said, I went through searching for answers on this forum and others, but the Instructions were a bit unclear.
Continue reading...
I had purchased a Windows 8 installation with my Dell laptop, i upgraded it to windows 8.1, and later to windows 10 when it was initially released. But at that time, it was riddled with bugs, so i reverted back to windows 8 and continued to use 8 without any upgrades. (I had low demands)
I now reinstalled Windows 10 recently since my disk was showing 100% usage and i thought it might be related to old drivers. It's better after the installation.
With the backstory of my previous Installations on my PC before you, i present the present partitions.
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 OEM 40 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 541 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 490 MB 669 MB
Partition 5 Primary 98 GB 1159 MB
Partition 6 Recovery 555 MB 99 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 451 MB 99 GB
Partition 8 Recovery 450 MB 100 GB
Partition 9 Recovery 350 MB 100 GB
Partition 10 Primary 420 GB 501 GB
Partition 11 Recovery 9 GB 921 GB
As can be seen i have multiple partitions on my Disk.
Also if anyone is curious I still need to reallocate 400G of partition space that i had to unallocate, as i thought it was the culprit for the 100% disk usage.
Upon going through a few forums topics i realize that Windows 10 creates recovery partitions for advanced troubleshoot options. But since i may have some deprecated recovery partitions which do not serve any purpose i would want to remove them.
Though the forum do provide Information about what the problem is, but the process of how to remove these partitions seemed lost on me.
It seemed to me I should be safe to remove partitions 7,8 and 9 but i would like a second informed opinion.
Some people said that the initial recovery partition (partition 4 in my case) may still be under use for boot by the system so should not be removed.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition6\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 31c6170e-a0a7-11ea-8b00-a2ef7dfd79e3
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition11\DELL\Image
Recovery image index: 1
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
If someone could help me figure this out it would be helpful.
Issue 2:
While using my windows 8.1, a few years back i installed ubuntu on a separate partition, to test out it's working. I messed up the configuration setting on that somehow, so i removed the partition on which i installed ubuntu. I do not remember if i did anything else besides that to remove it. but I think it wasn't removed properly as the option to boot into ubuntu still is visible during boot if i press F12 to show boot options.
Can this be removed? Would i need to edit the bootloader? If so, how? and is it safe to edit such?
I think i saw a tutorial somewhere asking to make the bootloader partition visible and then removing the entries for the deprecated OS, but it did not provide information as to how to make the bootloader not be visible in the explorer again.
Thanks for reading the Issues.
I apologize, for this question has already been asked, but as i said, I went through searching for answers on this forum and others, but the Instructions were a bit unclear.
Continue reading...