Windows has split my ssd in several partions

I just booted my computer this morning, and saw that i now have two new partitions, one is called reserved for the system and the other one is called res. Why do they suddenly pop up on my computer? Is it possible to merge them all into a single partition?

Solved by deleting all duplicate partitions, selecting the partition with windows as the active partition, doing the steps provided by navylcdr to install the boot files on the partition with windows, deleting the old partition and finally using this program to merge them into a single partition. ✔

These are small partitions and quite normal.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions

or MBR

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions

While some partitions can be eliminated, like recovery, leaving the partitions as Windows created them will likely mean less issues when updating or recovering.

Could I suggest you post a screen shot and see if anyone notes a problems.

Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of

Yes, but i don't want them to be visible on my computer. I only want a single partition with my installation of windows. They haven't been visible on my computer previously.

Cerawy said:

Sure, but i dont want them to be visible on my computer. I only want one drive with my windows installation. They havent been visible on my computer until today.

Post image of partitions.

Sounds like they may have been assigned a drive letter.

As I and cereberus stated, post Disk Management Screen shot please.

Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of

Yes i agree, windows own system recovery only works a few rare times. I'm not sure what you mean with a windows.old folder? I only want a single partition. Also, i just went into disk management to get a better look at some of the partitions. It seems like the easiest way to get rid of them, is to simply just delete the partitions that you don't need. So i have deleted all the partitions that i didnt need, except the one called res. It says windows cannot delete the active system partition on this disk if i try to delete it. It seems like this partition is the boot partition. I got 2 empty partitions left, which are taking up space after i deleted the duplicate partions that i didn't need, so i have used this program to merge all my leftover partitions with my windows partition. It gave me a few more gb of space as well. So now i only got two partitions left, one is a partition with windows, and the other one is a boot partition. Is it possible to merge them as well?

I would really like to know how, that way i would only have a single partition.