Macrium shows a red partition

pietcorus2 said:

Is this normal behaviour ; only 53MB free on a recovery-partition ?

This shows 100 MB free: How to Delete Recovery Partition in Windows 10 - not sure what the normal range is. 53 MB is probably fine and Windows will expand it when necessary.

Minitool Partition Wizard can give a lot of info on partitions via 'explore' and if you have two or three recovery partitions (as can happen) you can remove the older ones and leave the latest.

steve108 said:

This shows 100 MB free: How to Delete Recovery Partition in Windows 10 - not sure what the normal range is. 53 MB is probably fine and Windows will expand it when necessary.

What should happen now is that the one in partition 4 gets deleted when a new recovery partition is needed and a new one created in same space. If there is not enough space for new recovery partition, the C drive is shrunk to fit new recovery partition. That old recover partition (6) will never be used again.

Once it is deleted, OP should no longer get multiple partitions. That is how it should work but of course theory and fact do not always align LOL.

However, at no time is a recovery partition modified. To this end, having a redline is meaningless really. There is the perennial argument if a partition is too full, performance is affected, but as these partitions are static, and only used when setting off a recovery, the impact on performance is negligible and could not even be measured.

pietcorus2 said:

" That old recover partition (6) will never be used again. ".........ok, so which partition is safe to delete ??
Only using Macrium for restoring.......

I would make a full backup including partition 6, then delete it and and make sure everything's still okay and you can still enter recovery.

Then for extra credit you can try and fix the partition orders if you're feeling daring and ambitious

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...iew=windows-10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...iew=windows-10

steve108 said:

I would make a full backup including partition 6, then delete it and and make sure everything's still okay and you can still enter recovery.

I cannot disagree with this sound advice even though I am 99.99% certain that partition 6 can be safely deleted.

steve108 said:

Then for extra credit you can try and fix the partition orders if you're feeling daring and ambitious

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...iew=windows-10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...iew=windows-10

There is nothing wrong with partition order once partition 6 is deleted.