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  1. Posts : 68,995
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       #310

    ThrashZone said:
    Hi,
    I did option 1 and it added a drive letter D to 708mb system reserved in front of C
    Easy way to get rid of it ?
    Or can I just get rid of/ delete now D partition since efi was created but it's at the end of C
    Hello mate,

    You should be able to safely remove the "D" drive letter from it.

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  2. Posts : 7,724
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       #311

    Boot/ page files are on C so yeah I believe I can kill D
    But can I move the efi to the unallocated space in front of C ?
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  3. Posts : 68,995
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       #312

    ThrashZone said:
    Boot/ page files are on C so yeah I believe I can kill D
    But can I move the efi to the unallocated space in front of C ?
    Not without having to use a 3rd party disk management software.
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       #313

    Brink said:
    Not without having to use a 3rd party disk management software.
    Hi,
    I do have free minitool
    I was going to move C to get rid of the space but if I can get the efi to the old system reserved it's fine to
    I wouldn't care if it's 708mb instead of 100mb

    So would I just remove the drive letter D and try to merge efi with old system reserved ?
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  5. Posts : 7,724
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       #314

    Or delete D and efi to unallocated ?
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  6. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
       #315

    ThrashZone said:
    Hi,
    I did option 1 and it added a drive letter D to 708mb system reserved in front of C
    Easy way to get rid of it ?
    Or can I just get rid of/ delete now D partition since efi was created but it's at the end of C
    Minitool Partition Wizard Free is a good tool to use to manipulate the partitions in this situation.
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       #316

    NavyLCDR said:
    Minitool Partition Wizard Free is a good tool to use to manipulate the partitions in this situation.
    Hi,
    Free version wont allow to merge damnit
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  8. Posts : 18,432
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       #317

    ThrashZone said:
    Hi,
    Free version wont allow to merge damnit
    What are you trying to merge? Maybe post a screenshot of disk management and show us what you are trying to do. It sounded to me like you were trying to convert from MBR to GPT so now you have an ESP (EFI System Partition) at the end of the disk and you are trying to remove the old System Reserved partition at the front of the disk and add that space to C: drive.
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  9. Posts : 7,724
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       #318

    NavyLCDR said:
    What are you trying to merge? Maybe post a screenshot of disk management and show us what you are trying to do. It sounded to me like you were trying to convert from MBR to GPT so now you have an ESP (EFI System Partition) at the end of the disk and you are trying to remove the old System Reserved partition at the front of the disk and add that space to C: drive.
    Hi,
    I was wondering easy way to move efi to where the existing system reserved is at in front of C
    Minitool free can't merge it with system reserved so can diskpart by adding space and then move ?
    Right now I just removed the drive letter legacy to uefi added to system reserved as Shawn first suggested

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  10. Posts : 7,724
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       #319

    By the way I already did remove the system reserved and moved C to fill the space and undid it with a system image
    Think windows will use it again or not and add another system reserved after C after a large update or I mount another build.
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