2 Recovery partitions ?

[davidhk129]

This laptop is a pre-installed Win 7.
Upgraded to Win 10 Home.
Then I decided to change it to Insider Preview and now it is running build 10525. No dual boot.

Question :
Why are there 2 Recovery partitions ?
One is much larger than the other one. Why the difference ?

 

[Trouble]

I would assume that the larger of the two might have been, at one time, the Manufacturer's factory recovery partition from which you could perform a factory reset.
The smaller of the two possibly a product of a GPT rather than a MBR configuration.
Can't help but notice that they are both reporting 100% free space which would suggest they are both empty.
IDK if that is a result of them not having a drive letter assignment or.....
A result of your installs having somehow eliminated their contents, I've seen some reports that a Windows 10 install has resulted in some people unable to return their machine to factory settings and I wonder if that is the case in your situation now.
Maybe investigate by assigning them a drive letter and inspecting their contents?

 

[davidhk129]

Diskmgmt shows 100% free possibly because there are no driver letters assigned to them.
MiniTool Partition Wizard shows this.........
The large one is for my Acer recovery. That is now a known fact based on the screenshot.
PQSERVICE is the recovery partition created by Acer.
Still not sure what or how did the smaller one came from.

 

[Trouble]

The smaller or smallest (100.00 MB), based on your image, would be your system reserved partition where your boot config files are

 

[davidhk129]

Thank you.

I meant the 506MB one.