Anyone tried and succeeded? Not too awful plodding through the resizing? Tips to avoid destroying a partition and having to reinstall the os?
Anyone tried and succeeded? Not too awful plodding through the resizing? Tips to avoid destroying a partition and having to reinstall the os?
A recovery environment is overrated under Windows. Just backup your files and reinstall from scratch.
Yeah, I have it turned off on all my machines (mostly because of that vulnerability a few months ago).
I have never been in a situation where it was useful, nor have I ever had it work when I tried it.
It’s more than strictly a recovery partition. It is also used for updates and the files needed to roll individual ones back. The entire issue was that they had an update that didn’t properly handle when there wasn’t enough space for it in the recovery partition.
I’ve been using windows since windows 3. The number of times I’ve used the “recovery” feature is exactly zero.
The RE Partition is for more than Recovery. If you’ve ever uninstalled an update then you’ve used the RE Partition.
Very good point! Then I have used it.
In this case I’m happy I always installed Windows without RE partition. It works fine and you can still uninstall updates. Broken system files can also be replaced by a fresh pull from Windows Update.
Lucky for you! Twice over the years I have had Windows 10, the system failed to come back up after a windows update and the ability to uninstall the most recent update through the recovery partition saved me.
It recovers in the background with no user intervention when things go wrong.