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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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 Moderator2021-03-20T15:13:10+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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Anonymous
2021-03-20T15:10:34+00:00 Hi and thank you for your reply. As I wrote down 3 times in here. I will tell you once again. I installed Windows 10 on my laptop. When I was creating the partitions on new fresh hard drive Windows asked me if I'm ok with creation of additional partitions. I clicked OK and MRS and WINDRIVE appeared along with the the C partition. After the installation I've decided to reinstall it and go through same process but this time I receive just MRS and the C partition without WINDRIVE. Why that happen and how can I get back WINDRIVE partition in the partition manager Windows 10 installer?
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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.