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That is, until some new feature upgrade requires more space for its recovery partition. This is OK, not an error or issue in your Disk Management.Įverything is OK. Notice that the small 16 MB MSR partition between EFI and C: partitions will not be shown in Disk Management, simply because it is not and will not be formatted. The recovery partition is highlighted (yellow):

Here’s a sample screenshot from Disk Management showing the default Windows Setup partitioning after a clean install of Windows 10 version 1803. After a clean install, checking Disk Management shows you this default partitioning scheme. When you click OK, partitioning is handled, and places the recovery partition first in the resulting disk layout: Windows Setup will partition the disk and show you a message that says setup will create all necessary system partitions automatically: You can see how Windows Setup partitions the disk if, instead of clicking Next, you click New and accept the defaults. When installing on an empty disk, you can just click Next and Windows Setup will partition the disk automatically, after which it proceeds with installation: Let’s see how Windows Setup partitions a GPT disk on UEFI-based systems. If and when future feature upgrades need more space to store the recovery environment, the recovery partition cannot expand, and a new recovery partition is created. The flaw is, Windows Setup positions the small but important 500 MB recovery partition first on the system disk. The same is true when wiping the disk empty on a device containing a previous Windows 10 installation and deleting all partitions and performing a clean install. There’s a fundamental flaw in Windows 10 Setup when performing a clean install on a new empty hard disk or SSD.