yes, you will get a recovery partition - you will not get the windriver partition.
WINDRIVE Partition
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Hello, after I bought a new laptop Acer Aspire 7 A715-75G I've installed Windows 10. On the installation menu partition manager told me that Windows will created additional partitions I clicked Ok and MSR 16 MB and WINDRIVER 8 GB partition were created. I wanted to test something and I've reinstalled Windows 10 on same laptop and I deleted all previous partitions. After that I clicked Ok when Windows asked me about additional partition that will be created and I was surprise that WINDRIVER wasn't there. Why this happened and how can I get it back that WINDRIVER partition on the list?
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Johnny55 5,155 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-03-20T16:27:40+00:00 Dude I don't have any problem with BOOTING from my USB. The problem is WHERE IS DAM WINDRIVE PARTITION from the CREATING PARTITION WINDOWS TOOL?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!
Your WinDrive is the C: Drive, use File Explorer and just rename it. Not sure what you have done, but you have 124GB of unallocated space on your drive specified by RAW in Disk Management of unused space. You should not have 2 Primary partitions unless dual-booting.
You say you have deleted all partitions, does not appear so with your picture that shows the raw 124GB partition at the end of the drive. You should be able to reclaim that with Disk Management.
Perhaps you should read the guide I posted previously on how to re-install windows.
I'm done, no need to carry on with your yelling.
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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-03-20T15:15:06+00:00 Bottomline, you can't. It was provided by Acer. You must have left it on attempt #1.
If you use Windows ISO Image, it won't create windriver partition. Ask Acer for a factory Image if you want then. Again, if you delete partitions, it would be lost.
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Johnny55 5,155 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-03-20T15:13:10+00:00 When you clean install Windows using custom install you get this screen showing existing partitions:
You then delete all existing partitions and are left with this:
You then click Next and Windows starts the install, creating new partitions:
You install to the unallocated space, that's all. Windows makes new partitions in the background as the example I posted above.
Regards,
Edit: You might want to follow this guide for clean install written by Andre. He explains the procedure.
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Johnny55 5,155 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-03-20T15:04:06+00:00 You don't pay attention to the question. I've installed Windows 10, I got those 3 partitions MSR + WINDRIVE and I reinstalled and I didn't get in the partition menu the WINDRIVE partition, only MSR. I want WINDRIVE to appear on the screen when I'm installing Windows.
Yes I did. There is not a 8GB windrive partiton that comes with this model, or in your case, deleting all partitions, windows would create new ones automatically in the background, it does not ask to create them. This example is legacy bios total clean install.
Please post a pic of your drive as above example from Disk Management. The C: drive contains Windows installation. Not exactly sure what you have done here.