WINDRIVE Partition

Anonymous
2021-03-20T10:52:35+00:00

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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MartMcd 2,670 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-03-21T20:00:13+00:00

yes, you will get a recovery partition - you will not get the windriver partition.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-20T14:42:26+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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-20T14:43:11+00:00

    Great, how can I have WINDRIVE on the partition menu again when I reinstall Windows 10?

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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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