How can I delete a partion on a drive.

Thank you Emily for responding to my cry for help. I am losing what little brain cells I have left. I went thru the steps and hit a new hicup. I hope you have a fix for this.

The free edition of Aoemi did not display the ability to convert dynamic to basic.

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AOMEI Partition Assistant Edition Comparison (aomeitech.com)

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Most third party software have a fee for converting dynamic to basic without data loss.

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It's best to clone basic to basic or restore an image of only the data (C:) partition to a clean install.

The clone maintains the partition architecture and sizes.

The restore only changes the clean installed data partition to the restored image. The system, reserved, and recovery partitions are all new default partitions.

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When a clean install is performed with BIOS UEFI the partition architecture is System / Reserved / Data / Recovery

System = EFI

Data = C:

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One disk drive can be cloned to another or one partition can be restored to a clean install.

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One of the most efficient methods to move a Windows installation from one disk drive to another is to clean install Windows 11 on the new disk drive and restore only the data partition to the disk drive with the clean install.

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Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect | Tutorials (tenforums.com)

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Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk | Microsoft Learn

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(1) Download Official Windows 11 ISO file from Microsoft Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum (elevenforum.com)

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Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

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(1) Clean Install Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum (elevenforum.com)

I just wanted to move my OS to another SSD. Before 2 days ago I didnt have gpt or dynamic anywhere in my brain. If you are fimilar with Aomie partition assistant can you please give me the steps of how to do it. Thank you again for responding.

How come you're using a dynamic disk?

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Microsoft deprecated dynamic disks.

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If you want to clone it is best to clone a basic disk to basic disk.

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Indicate what you want to accomplish with each the 250 GB and 500 GB disks.

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Consider backing up any important data on the dynamic disk and then cleaning / converting to a baskic disk.

Then restore an image or clone the 250 GB to 500GB disk.

Hello Terry, this is Emily.

The 684MB partition is housing the recovery environment for your Windows . While you can use diskpart and command to delete it instead, it's important to note that this can potentially cause issues with system recovery in the future.

As to delete, please type cmd in the search on the taskbar and make sure you select "run as administrator" to launch command prompt.

then run this command:

diskpart

It should pop up another command window.

Now run the following one at a time.

List disk Select disk 2 list partition select partition x delete partition override

Please note: The x in the last 2nd command should be the number of the partition corresponding to that 684mb space.