Request for information about factory partition scheme and boot menu

[Robert]

windows 10 doesn’t support “compact” install as in windows 8.1. It uses filesystem compression instead

[Karl0ss]

The windows 10 install on our tablet is already using CompactOS, you can check that typing –

compact.exe /compactos:query – in an elevated command window, it will say something like “windows is already in a compact state”

[mark]

I would assume this is correct because my PC has all 3 recovery options but the X98 is missing the option to restore to factory settings.  Glad I made a full disk image just in case.

[Tom]

Many thanks for the info.

I know it’s unrelated but I think that install.wim + wimboot was a much safe way to manage a resilient system.

I have taken a look at the disk structure and it seems we have 2 efi partition,

I assume boot menu is in bios and it points directly to 1 of the 2 uefi partition ignoring the other.

Probably a boot loader like clover could be a more clean solution but this way you are not messing with os installs…

anyway I am still curious about the disk structure,  -BTW android partitioning looks like a real mess!

 

[Robert]

there are 12 partitions for android with various sizes from 1MB to 20GB and two partitions for windows, 33.5GB for system and 450MB for recovery

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