Oddity with my Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) partition location.

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I’m all about image backups and do not depend upon the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). However, for heck of it I checked its status from an elevated command prompt using reagentc /info.

It shows the location of my Windows RE partition as partition 4:
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE

Disk Management shows only 3 partitions on my C drive.

What say you?

OS and hardware info:
Windows 10 Pro [Version 10.0.19045.5011]

-Asus motherboard TUF X299 Mark 1 – 16GB RAM
-Intel Core i7-7820X Skylake-X 8-Core 3.6 GHz.
(CPU is one of the few 7th gen chips approved for Win 11.)
GPU: GTX 1050 Ti 4GB

Desktop mobo Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, CPU: Intel Core i7-7820X Skylake-X 8-Core 3.6 GHz, RAM: 32GB, GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB. Display: Four 27" 1080p screens 2 over 2 quad.

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Hi TechTango:

See RetiredGeek’s 24-Oct-2024 post # 2712494 in Susan Bradley’s MS-DEFCON 4: 24H2 is a work in progress, which states in part:

“Disk Management doesn’t report the correct values for WinRe partitions…”

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Zig

Perfect.  I missed that post.  Super helpful.

Desktop mobo Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, CPU: Intel Core i7-7820X Skylake-X 8-Core 3.6 GHz, RAM: 32GB, GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB. Display: Four 27" 1080p screens 2 over 2 quad.

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Desktop mobo Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, CPU: Intel Core i7-7820X Skylake-X 8-Core 3.6 GHz, RAM: 32GB, GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB. Display: Four 27" 1080p screens 2 over 2 quad.