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Acronis Recovery Partition - 2 Partitions?

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Hello all,

I am about to begin to rebuild my laptop and had the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager active on the laptop. I have since disabled this, in preparation for clean builds. I am noticing two recovery partitions, one 785 meg and the other 787 meg. I would assume one of these is the partition for the ASRM. Why am I seeing two? Second can the ASRM use the standard 450 meg Windows recovery partition instead? If yes how do I accomplish this?

Thanks,

Steve

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Steve, any Recovery partition you see on your system has nothing to do with the ASRM function - this does not result in any partitions being created, only the Acronis Secure Zone (ASZ) would cause a new partition.

The two Recovery partitions are from Windows Upgrades from Windows 8.1 or 10 and you could potentially exclude these from your backup of the entire disk, though given they are only around 1.5GB in total, you could include them in the backup but not restore them when you rebuild the laptop if you are going to restore you current backup to the drive.

ASRM only really updates the Windows boot information, either in the MBR or EFI bootloader to point this to where a small Linux environment can be found and loaded in order to launch the Acronis application for Recovery.  As far as I am aware, the ASRM data is stored in a hidden folder without needing a separate partition.

Steve,

Ok I am going to delete them when I rebuild. No need for them. Weird that they are there.

Steve

Steve, see webpage: How to Delete Recovery Partition in Windows 10/8/7 Safely? for more information about these recovery partitions.