What is the new recovery partition for the Win10 hard drive?

Careful users will find a recovery partition under the Win10 system hard disk partition, what is this Win10 recovery partition? what's the effect? Can you delete it? This article will introduce the Win10 hard drive recovery partition, let's take a look.
Fully off the newly installed Win7 (MBR hard disk), the default is that there will be no recovery partition After upgrading Win10 (MBR hard disk), one more "recovery partition" What is the recovery partition? ?

Starting from Vista, the Windows environment has a built-in recovery environment (WinRE), which contains some recovery tools, which is equivalent to a micro operating system environment. The recovery environment system files are stored in a file named WinRE.wim. Yes, this recovery partition is used to store WinRE files.

Why is a partition divided separately?

In Win7, the recovery environment and the system are in the same partition. In Win8, in order to ensure the availability of the recovery environment and the speciality of UEFI startup, Microsoft puts it in the system reserved partition by default. So the system reserved partition has increased from 100MB in Windows7 to 350MB in Windows8/Windows 8.1, and the WinRE file size has increased a lot. At Win10, the volume of WinRE is further increased, and the original reserved partition can no longer be accommodated. After upgrading from Win7/Win8/Win8.1 system to Win10, (if there is a reserved partition before), the system will automatically create an additional partition to store. Restore the environment.

What is the recovery environment? “Recover partitions” Can I delete?

You may have the impression that the computer with Win7 system will enter the advanced startup option by pressing F8 before booting. Click “& Repair the computer” to enter the recovery environment. In Win8/Win8.1/Win10, the “Advanced Startup” in the system settings will also enter the recovery environment.

The above is the introduction of Win10 hard disk recovery partition, this we know that the recovery partition is used to backup the system, if you do not want to use this feature you can delete the recovery partition, but here is still recommended to keep recovery Partition.