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| 1410256 | 2015-10-20 21:17:00 | My desktop has Win 10 on a 240GB SSD. Documents & data files are kept on separate hard drives. Win 10 was upgraded from Win 7. When I look at the SSD with Disk Management I see, from left to right: (1) 100MB partition, labelled EFI System Partition; (2) C: drive, 209GB; (3) 450MB partition, labelled Recovery; (4) 23.3GB, labelled Unallocated. I would like to add the unallocated area to the C: partition, but this would mean removing the Recovery partition. I periodically back up an image of C: with Acronis. Would it be sensible to delete the Recovery partition, or is it essential to keep it? |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1410257 | 2015-10-20 21:33:00 | If you delete the recovery partition you may find the Computer wont boot, as its looking for it. Delete it at your own Risk. 23.3GB, labelled Unallocated Theres a waste for starters, resize C to take the 23GB. If you wanted more space look for the Windows.old folder in the C drive, that can be removed usually without doing any harm, as well as the W10 upgrade folders. The other Way is to wipe the drive completely and reinstall Windows 10 from fresh. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1410258 | 2015-10-20 22:32:00 | On a similar subject. After you have upgraded from say Win 7 and you're happy what directories can you delete . Windows.old is one but what others?? $WINDOWS.~BT, $Windows.~WS ?? | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1410259 | 2015-10-21 05:10:00 | If you delete the recovery partition you may find the Computer wont boot, as its looking for it. Delete it at your own Risk. Theres a waste for starters, resize C to take the 23GB. If you wanted more space look for the Windows.old folder in the C drive, that can be removed usually without doing any harm, as well as the W10 upgrade folders. The other Way is to wipe the drive completely and reinstall Windows 10 from fresh. OK, so I was right to ask first. Windows.old has already gone. Resizing C: is problematic because the Recovery partition lies between C: and the unallocated space and as far as I know I can't simply slide it down to the end. Wipe and reinstall is certainly an option, but the issue is not important enough to justify that hassle. I'll just leave things as they are for now. Thanks for the reply. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1410260 | 2015-10-21 10:46:00 | I wonder why you want to increase the size of your 'C' partition, it is already too big 85GB being more than enough. System backups are much faster & smaller if the partition is small. I would shorten 'C' then add the unallocated space to (3) 450MB partition, labelled Recovery; & add (4) 23.3GB, labelled Unallocated and use this for Data. If you are doing Acronis backups to an external drive you do not need a recovery partition |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1410261 | 2015-10-21 15:59:00 | Windows 10 doesn't use a recovery partition like previous versions of Windows used. | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1410262 | 2015-10-21 20:52:00 | It could be a manufactures recovery partition (probably is) . Your C: IS NOT too big dont start splitting up the drive & making c: smaller , unless you REALLY know what you are doing. Thats terrible advice for the av user. Ive seen so many hard drives were that was done, then the data drive never got used & the C: gets full to the point where the system stops working properly. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1410263 | 2015-10-22 01:36:00 | Windows 10 does need a recovery partition on an GPT disk. For MBR disk, the WinRe files are stored on system reserved partition, but it will create a recovery partition if the system reserved partition is insufficent. if you just delete the recovery partition, you won't be able to use recovery options(I suggest you keep it, though deleting recovery partition won't cause your computer unbootable). to do what you want, you only need to move the recovery partition with third party software. If you need detailed steps, reply to me. move information about recovery partition windows 10 (www.disk-partition.com) |
lordsnow (17412) | ||
| 1410264 | 2015-10-22 02:54:00 | It could be a manufactures recovery partition (probably is) . Your C: IS NOT too big dont start splitting up the drive & making c: smaller , unless you REALLY know what you are doing. Thats terrible advice for the av user. Ive seen so many hard drives were that was done, then the data drive never got used & the C: gets full to the point where the system stops working properly. If you divert your "My Documents" folder to a folder in the Data partition you will not lose any data in the event that Windows requires re-installing. To the operator My Documents will remain on the C drive, but will save to the D drive. The C drive on this computer is 35GB on W10 with 12GB to spare. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1410265 | 2015-10-23 04:30:00 | Windows 10 does need a recovery partition on an GPT disk. For MBR disk, the WinRe files are stored on system reserved partition, but it will create a recovery partition if the system reserved partition is insufficent. if you just delete the recovery partition, you won't be able to use recovery options(I suggest you keep it, though deleting recovery partition won't cause your computer unbootable). to do what you want, you only need to move the recovery partition with third party software. If you need detailed steps, reply to me. move information about recovery partition windows 10 (www.disk-partition.com) Thanks for that link - I shall follow up what you say. And thanks to all others who replied to my query - but there seem to be some different views about what can and can't be done with recovery partitions. When I was a kid I once poked my finger in a light socket to see what would happen. The experiment was successful and educational, and sometimes you need to take the same attitude with computers. |
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