Solved What would I need to view the contents of this partition

thecaretaker · Jan 18, 2024

By mistake, I think I may have saved the Fan setup from the BIOS to the wrong location. I clicked save without checking that I selected the USB stick. It shows up in Macrium as per the image. What can I use to view the contents of this partition and delete the fan setup file (if I can see it).

ThrashZone · Jan 18, 2024

Hi,
The partiton in red ?
That is likely a recovery tools partition
Use a prior made system image and drop it on the red one.

Ghot · Jan 18, 2024

thecaretaker said:
By mistake, I think I may have saved the Fan setup from the BIOS to the wrong location. I clicked save without checking that I selected the USB stick. It shows up in Macrium as per the image. What can I use to view the contents of this partition and delete the fan setup file (if I can see it).

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That looks like the Recovery partition.
Look at it in Disk Management.

In Macrium... it's RED because it's too full.

In your BIOS, on the Save & Exit tab, you can "save" your current BIOS settings to a "profile".

Here is the link to your BIOS settings (PDF)...

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_600series-bios_e_v3.pdf?v=e176cfcc0bb7f8b739252e4d3b0b9101

You can also save your BIOS settings to a drive or a USB stick.

ThrashZone · Jan 18, 2024

Hi,
Only way to read the partition is to add a drive letter
Once ~~don't~~ Done remove it.
Easiest is to replace it off a existing system image and be done.

Bree · Jan 18, 2024

thecaretaker said:
What can I use to view the contents of this partition and delete the fan setup file (if I can see it).

MiniTool Partition Wizard has a Partition Explorer that can see (but not change) the contents of any partition. This is my Recovery partition.

thecaretaker · Jan 18, 2024

Looks like I'm stuck. Disk Management doesn't let me add a partition number.
I don't have a good Marcium Backup that I can replace the contents of that partition.
I saved a Profile to a USB as Ghot suggested, but not sure how that will help.

I will download the MiniTool Partition Wizard tool to see if I can spot the BIOS fan setup file/s.

thecaretaker · Jan 18, 2024

OK, it doesn't look like I have anything that shouldn't be in there. So me thinking I saved the fan setup to it is incorrect. It's just large.

That winre.wim takes up most of the space.

ThrashZone · Jan 18, 2024

Yeah ctrl+f12 or shift+f12 I can't remember which usually will save a text file to a removable fat32 device.

MS should reuse the RE no matter what it's size.
Worst case the idiots won't lol

Jan 2024 Patch Tuesday Update Causing Insufficient Disk Space Errors

Apparently some people are getting errors with the Jan updates. The exact error is 0x80070643 = CBS_E_INSUFFICIENT_DISK_SPACE. To resolve the issue, increase the size of the Recovery Environment partition by 250 MB. Instructions can be found at the link below...

www.elevenforum.com

Bree · Jan 18, 2024

thecaretaker said:
That winre.wim takes up most of the space.

Yes, that's because the .wim file is a Windows Image file, a fully functional OS in its own right. It is what you boot from to get to the Windows Recover Environment.

thecaretaker · Jan 18, 2024

The link showing how to increase the recovery partition is beyond my knowledge and understanding. I could shrink the OS partition by 250mb in disk management but I don't think I have the option to expand the recovery partition.
I'm not getting any errors and MR loads the RE to do restores. So I'm just about OK partition size wise. But it would be useful to make it larger to future proof it.
Surely, if this is something MS has messed up with an update, it is down to them to fix it in a future update yes?

Bree · Jan 18, 2024

thecaretaker said:
The link showing how to increase the recovery partition is beyond my knowledge and understanding. I could shrink the OS partition by 250mb in disk management but I don't think I have the option to expand the recovery partition.

No, Disk Management can't do that.....

thecaretaker said:
I will download the MiniTool Partition Wizard tool....

...but your MiniTool Partition Wizard can :thumbsup:

thecaretaker · Jan 18, 2024

Thanks Bree. I reduced the OS partition by 250mb using Disk Management and extended the recovery partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard to take up the unallocated space. All sorted.