Multiple Partitions After Reinstall

Question

Hello,

After reinstalling my OS, I noticed several partitions of varying sizes, and I'm not sure if they're usable. Now that I've done a few installations, my storage is running low. Should I merge these partitions, or is there a better solution?

Thanks

Answer 1

Glad to help!

Answer 2

Thank you Dave

Answer 3

It is safe to remove the two partitions to the far right of that C drive partition (15.00GB and 1.06GB), do not touch the partition directly to the right of the C drive, even though it is not labelled, it is most likely the recovery partition being used by Windows.

Answer 4

Thanks Dave. Shall I remove these 2 partitions and merge them? Is it safe to do so?

Answer 5

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Usually to the right of the C drive partition, there would be a small recovery partition, but hose partitions do not seem to contain any system files like a recovery partition.

The partition directly to the right of the C drive is most likely the current Windows Recovery partition, do not touch that.

The 15GB partition is the old PC manufacturers recovery partition and the 1.06GB partition is the old Windows recovery partition.

Windows has limited partitioning ability, to merge those two partitions into the C drive partition, you would need to use a 3rd party utility like the free version of AOMEI Partition Assistant.