Acer Nitro 591G - Delete recovery partition?

Spec-Chum

Hey all, I’ve been building PCs for many years but this is my first ever laptop and especially my first computer with Windows pre-installed.

 

I noticed there is a 15Gb partition called IMAGES on the 60Gb SSD installed on my Acer Laptop, which is ¼ of the entire drive!

 

Is there any way this can be moved to the installed 1Gb mechanical drive or deleted entirely?  I’ve already made a backup to a USB flash drive but did not get an option to delete.

 

I suspect it may be part of a WIMBoot install, so I think deleting it will just break Windows?

 

I actually always thought WIMBoot was for tablets and could actually be detrimental to a more powerful system.

 

On that note, I do have a Windows 8 DVD that I used to put Windows 8.1 (obviously updates to 8.1 via windows updates).  Is there any way I can use this to reinstall a “normal” windows on my new laptop?  Will it use the key embedded on BIOS? (I assume the key is embedded?)

 

On a more positive note, the laptop is great, plenty powerful and very quick, so no issues there.  And I can finally use the AC in my newish AC router!

Spec-Chum

Thanks for the reply philetus, don't worry about this now.

 

I've done some research and it definitely is using WIMBoot so that recovery partition isn't going (and can’t go!) anywhere lol

 

Certainly explains why I couldn't boot after removing it but the USB back up worked first time, so all good. 

 

I’ve actually grown to like WIMBoot in principle and I can see it going more mainstream, even on systems that don’t “need” it.  I think it's a good, positive move by MS and I don't say that often. 

 

Come in “having 2 copies of windows per install” your times up!