Does anyone know how to prevent Windows 10 updates from creating a recovery partition? Every time MS does one of its major updates it creates a 500 MB partition at the end of the current Windows partition and this this breaks GRUB.
There are some good threads on this topic at:
The threads above all say there is no way to stop MS updates creating the recovery partition, but I am just wondering if anyone has found a way.
It breaks grub exactly how?
Thanks for the speedy response. I’ve been asked this question by a friend whom I have been encouraging to try Linux, and since it gets complicated being the go-between, he’s going to open an account.
You can inhibit partition table breakage by Windows by doing all partitioning in advance of beginning the first installation, allocating all space on the “disk” to partitions, with all Windows-native partitions, including (space for a) Windows recovery partition, after all non-Windows and neutral (ESP) partitions. If Windows somehow subverts your intent, in all likelihood its changes made in the table would be both physically and logically beyond those Grub cares about, and thus fail to thwart Grub and Linux, other than Windows changing the default in the UEFI firmware, which is easily and simply corrected after the Windows installation or upgrade process completes.
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