Is this partition still needed?

Natey2
Natey2 Member Posts: 23 New User
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I'm on Windows 10 now.
Do I still need the 449MB partition below on my Acer Aspire E11?

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    it's better to leave it or you will have troubles accessing to window 10 recovery.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    If you make your Acer Recovery drive, you could delete it. 99% of the time the Recovery drive works correctly and recovers the system to Factory original. The other 1% it fails and you're stuck with having to buy a Recovery drive from Acer or reformat and clean install from a disk. 

    The way I do it is to make my recovery drive, replace the HDD and recover with the Recovery drive. I almost always replace with a SSD so, I leave it and store the factory HDD.

  • DattiLOL
    DattiLOL Member Posts: 5 New User

    If you use AOMEI backup freeware, it's very easy to keep Windows 10 recovery image in a smaller size. You can use its compress feature, then it won't take up that much space.

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