Update 10/23/2015
After doing some new reading from the Microsoft Hardware Dev Center, I am making some changes to my recommendation for UEFI Partitions. In the next few days I will be adding a few posts related to Partitions and Windows 10, and pointing out some major gripes with Microsoft. Let’s just say I have 0 confidence that Microsoft’s Windows, Hardware, Server, MDOP DaRT, and Config Mgr teams even discuss these things, so my recommendations will NOT be in line with Microsoft’s.
The updated graphic below will show my UEFI Partition recommendation, and I will detail in the coming days why these are accurate.
I strongly recommend the following Partitions for OS Deployments
Here are my posts on Partitions
- Partitions: The Defaults for Windows, MDT, CM and Technet
- Partitions: My Recommendations for Windows Deployments
- Partitions: Modifying MDT to Support Custom Partitioning
- Partitions: 300MB UEFI Windows RE tools Partition (Doesn’t Work)
- Partitions: Windows 10 (Technical Preview) Requirements for WinRE
- Partitions: Microsoft Surface Recovery Images (UEFI)
- Partitions: Microsoft Surface Pro Upgrade to Windows 10
And why Microsoft’s UEFI Partition recommendations are wrong
And here are important links for reference
- Microsoft Windows Hardware Dev Center: Hard Drives and Partitions Added 10/23/2015
- Microsoft Windows Hardware Dev Center: UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions Added 10/23/2015
- Windows and GPT FAQ (MSDN Windows Hardware) Added 10/23/2015
- Windows 8.1 – Technet Hard Drives and Partitions
- Windows 8.1 – Technet Hard Drives and Partitions Overview
- Windows 8.1 – Technet Configure BIOS/MBR-Based Hard Drive Partitions
- Windows 8.1 – Technet Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions
- Windows 7 – Technet Understanding Disk Partitions
- Windows 7 – Technet Recommended BIOS-Based Disk-Partition Configurations
- Windows 7 – Technet Recommended UEFI-Based Disk-Partition Configurations
- TechRepublic – Fix the 0x80780119 error when creating a System Image in Windows 7 and 8