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Is this an issue? Comments? Been imaging the same disk since Win 7.

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An issue for what exactly?
 

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Well your third recovery partition may become an issue at some point in the future as it can grow in usage with newer builds., and the system partition at the end of the drive is OK as long as it doesn't star above 2.2 TB, which is not an issue for you.. What's the first partition?
 

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I think partition 5 may be your ESP - understandably not in its conventional position, but still operable.
If partition 4 is your current WinRE, partition 3 can be deleted and the unallocatd space used to extend C:
Partition 1 is probably not doing anything - a legacy from your previous migrations/upgrades?
 

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omnescient said:
I think partition 5 may be your ESP - understandably not in its conventional position, but still operable.
If partition 4 is your current WinRE, partition 3 can be deleted and the unallocatd space used to extend C:
Partition 1 is probably not doing anything - a legacy from your previous migrations/upgrades?
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Partition 3 is the recovery partition, don't delete it.
 

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Too many unknowns in your screenshot, and your question - try Minitool Partition Wizard (free) e.g.
 

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PerpetualCycle said:
Partition 3 is the recovery partition, don't delete it.
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If part 3 is the recovery partition, (and I did say 'if'), then yes, I agree, don't delete it. I believe that partitions 3 & 4 may both be recovery partitions, and if that's so, then one of them is obsolete.
If that is the case, then the obsolete one can be deleted.
If partition 3 is the obsolete recovery partition, then deleting it and extending C: would have it immediately following C:, and extendable by Windows if necessary in the future.
Apologies for any confusion in my original response.
 

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Normally the recovery partition is marked as the recovery partition in disk management.

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From command prompt or powershell, what does this report: reagentc /info
 

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omnescient said:
If part 3 is the recovery partition, (and I did say 'if'), then yes, I agree, don't delete it. I believe that partitions 3 & 4 may both be recovery partitions, and if that's so, then one of them is obsolete.
If that is the case, then the obsolete one can be deleted.
If partition 3 is the obsolete recovery partition, then deleting it and extending C: would have it immediately following C:, and extendable by Windows if necessary in the future.
Apologies for any confusion in my original response.
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It is - both partition and size (partition size and content size) are right (windows places the recovery partition after the boot drive) . Look at the size of your recovery partition.
4 is highly likely to be an obsolete recovery partition based on its smaller size.

EDIT: What @KevTech suggested will pin it down.
 

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