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
2021-03-21T15:19:49+00:00 Yes I don't have Recovery how do I get it again from the Microsoft Windows 10 installer?
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Pauli O 16,380 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-03-21T15:13:31+00:00 >"WOW finally a decent reply"
You get almost same answer by Sumit in first page of this thread.
This is Windows 10 default partition lay-out which is recommend by MS and created in clean install of v2004 or v20H2.
Purpose of those partitions are explained here: UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions | Microsoft Docs
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Anonymous
2021-03-21T14:47:27+00:00 WOW finally a decent reply, thanks Martmcd") for your reply.
It's a good hint "Acer created the WINDRIVER partition that, apparently, contains device drivers for windows." Good to know. But on the second/third/forth installation is not creating it anymore. Why?
Another problem that I'm struggling with is how to remove Windows Boot Manager from BIOS list.
I mention that I've tried efibootmgr also I've reinstalled Microsoft Windows and bcdedit and even msconfig. None of those had worked.
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Anonymous
2021-03-21T02:26:38+00:00 I saw your example but I don't get that extra partition from the Microsoft Windows 10 installer by default anymore, why?