Using diskpart.exe, I’ve configured so that the recovery partition(B:/) is shown in my original windows environment.

Here’s a step-by-step walthrough on how to check the contents. But from outside, it showed that it contained files worth 2.6GB.

When I tried to manually extract the windows 7 recovery image stored in the recovery partition in my Dell laptop, I noticed that it only showed a ‘Recovery’ folder and didn’t seem to contain anything.