SecondTimeAround wrote:

In the early days of the Win 10 setup process, a 499 MB Recovery partition was placed at the front of the drive. Eventually this partition became too small for the changing Recovery requirements, but couldn't be enlarged due to the unmovable 16 MB MSR partition after it, so a new Recovery partition was created at the end of the drive.

Have a look here:
https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/200367-windows-10-22h2-installation-creates-new-recovery-partition.html

On my computers on which I have done clean installs, the partitions are as expected.

My laptop still has the original, now unused, 499 MB Recovery partition at the front of the drive and the in-use Recovery partition at the end.

(Of course, none of this relates to the current problem, which is the subject of this thread)

Ahhh, okay, thanks. I always delete all of the old partitioning info when performing a clean install so I jettisoned that history.