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Can I delete any of these partition?
Last edited by saraneth; 10 Jan 2016 at 23:02.
Your partition layout is a bit of a mess. It will not affect your running, but is sub optimal.
If you are happy to reinstall all programs, and backup valuable data, I would be inclined to do a clean install of windows 10 deleting all partitions.
Then it will be setup with the partitions as you should have them.
You can delete the 650MB recovery partition, and the OEM partition. on a GPT disk (UEFI boot mode enabled), it does create an EFI, MRS (won't show in Disk Management), Recovery, and C: drive. If you install Windows 10 on an MBR disk, it only needs System Reserved partition and C: drive. When you upgrade Windows 8.1 to 10, Windows 10 will create a recovery partition if your system reserved partition (MBR disk) or Recovery Partition doesn't have enough disk space. As you know, Windows can only shrink a partition from the right side, so the 450 MB recovery partition is new created, which should not be deleted if you want to use recovery options.From Microsoft Help with upgrading to Windows 10 - Windows Help
, under "Can i go back to my old operating system", "Note: If the manufacturer set up your PC to run from a compressed Windows image file (also known as Windows image file boot or WIMBoot) and included the option to restore factory settings, that option will no longer be available after you upgrade to Windows 10." Therefore, you can delete the OEM recovery partition. To see more details, you can read: The Recovery Partition After Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8 Recovery Partition After Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8
I used AOMEI Partition Assistant and was able to get rid of them. It also allowed me to merge c: with them all including the space before it. Took about 20minutes as it moved my entire C drive.
Those last 2 partitions there I am unable to remove so I assume they are important. Edit: Although I just noticed there is nothing in them...
I just don't know what I am going to do if I ever need to do a fresh install on Win10. If what I have been reading around is correct I might even have to use a pirated copy, which I don't really want to do.
Yes, don't delete those partitions but move your C partition to the end with AOMEI partition assistant.
https://www.partition-assistant.com/...partition.html