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 Moderator2021-03-20T14:21:53+00:00 Hi Ruroni,
Some PCs come with a partition that contains drivers, which looks like what was there in WINDRIVER. Sure you deleted all the partitions and started from unallocated space during the first attempt?
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Anonymous
2021-03-20T14:25:17+00:00 Yes I did and went very well. All 3 partitions MSR + WINDRIVE + C were there the problem is on the second installation I don't have WINDRIVE anymore.
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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-03-20T14:31:10+00:00 WinDriver Folder — Acer Community
Indeed, Factory Install comes up with WINDRIVER partition. Rest assured no action is required from your end, you can download the drivers from Acer if needed(though WU these days even offers firmware updates as well).
Hope that helps.
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Johnny55 5,155 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-03-20T14:39:35+00:00 I have the exact same laptop, there is a 100MB System Reserved Partition, Main OS Partition, a 500MB recovery partition (Windows) end of drive and adjacent to that a 1GB manufacturer oem recovery partition.
There was never a windriver partition that came with this Aspire. What you are stating at 8GB is 8 times the size of the default oem recovery partition.
Regards,