Recovery Drive is a storage device designed to help restore data from a damaged or corrupted primary drive.
Recovery Drive is a storage device designed to help restore data from a damaged or corrupted primary drive.
It’s a recovery drive that comes with your new PC. It contains essential system files and tools to restore your setup. You can delete it by using the built-in recovery utility or by removing the drive from your system partition.
It helps repair your setup when the main storage device fails. You can start from the boot settings. It’s a good idea to keep it rather than removing it, since it’s handy in case of issues. If you need to wipe it down using disk management or DiskPart, you should do that.
If your C drive stops working, you can start Windows from there.
It's a section of the hard drive used by the system to keep a backup of Windows, drivers, and all the programs that came with your computer. When you want to restore your PC, the system reads this partition to reinstall everything. If you're unsure what it is, it's best not to delete it.
Windows 8 supports a recovery drive (USB) or system repair disc (CD/DVD) for fixing and restoring your computer. You can remove it, but I keep it because the recovery partition is small and it’s quicker to reimage from there instead of using the original discs.