I cloned a 750Gb HDD to a 1Tb SSD. Macrium Reflect simply copied the partitions over as-is. It left 260Gb unallocated. There are 2 partitions that I'm thinking are left-over and can be deleted.
The idea being that once those partitions are gone, there will be contiguous space available to extend the C: partition. If those other two partitions are needed, could I simply shrink the larger partition and fit them after it?
You can delete them without affecting Windows 10. What you might lose is the ability to restore the computer back to factory condition using some kind of factory provided utility. If you don't care about restoring the computer back to factory condition, then they should be safe to delete.
Thanks for the confirmation on deletion of those partitions, NavyLCDR. Are you actually with the US Navy?
I used AOMEI Partition Assistant to delete them, resized the primary partition to max, then let the Windows PE mode take over to complete. All worked well. I'm successfully running on a 1TB SSD (Samsung EVO 860). Can't say enough how enormously improved the experience is. Mechanical drives are comparatively slow, more power hungry, and generate quite a bit of heat. I'm astonished how much cooler my laptop is running now. I should have done this a year ago!
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