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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Anonymous
2021-03-21T02:23:42+00:00 Suggestion: attitude and respect are very important on public forums
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this may help.
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Pauli O 16,380 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-03-21T02:18:55+00:00 "It was created on the very first moment on the installation of the Microsoft Windows 10. And after that I deleted all from the Microsoft Windows 10 installer and it doesn't create it anymore, why?"
I don't know what happened when you did that first install, but on second time installer created partition layout something like is should be by default (see my link to MS documents) and 8 GB WINDRIVE is not by MS design.
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Anonymous
2021-03-21T02:13:31+00:00 Yes but the Microsoft Windows 10 installer doesn't create anymore that RECOVERY WINDRIVER partition.
It was created on the very first moment on the installation of the Microsoft Windows 10. And after that I deleted all from the Microsoft Windows 10 installer and it doesn't create it anymore, why?
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Anonymous
2021-03-21T02:09:11+00:00 Thank you for your reply bro, as I mentioned before I got 4
- UEFI SHELL 2.7 = 1 GB
- After Microsoft Windows 10 partition installer asked me if I'm ok with creating additional partition I got the following:
1 partition = 16 MB Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR)
2 partition 8 GB = WINDRIVE, which I searched first time I saw it on the Google that's why I know exactly what was and how much space it had. I searched for it on Google to hide it from the My Computer because I didn't want that partition to be seen there on the list since I won't be using it, It was NTFS formatted and It had some Microsoft Windows files on it also.
3 partition my unallocated hdd free space
Now if I'm doing same process and delete all the Microsoft Windows Partition automatically created I'm getting only 2, the MSR and the unallocated hdd free space. I want recovery or what was that 8 GB WINDRIVE to re appear on the USB Microsoft Windows 10 partition creator, that's all I need. (P.S. I don't want to create it manually).