Dell Laptop, Repartition Dell's Mashup?

I bought a dell laptop a year ago, Dell - Inspiron 15.6" 7000 2-in-1 4K Ultra HD Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB - GeForce MX250 - 512GB SSD + Optane. I love it. I regularly back up all my computers using Macrium which has served me well. Recently I looked at the partition layout on this Dell and of course, it doesn't look at all like a normal laptop partitioning. I'm thinking of repartitioning and am wondering if you have any suggestions as to which partitions to remove and melt into another. I don't need the Image that is on the Image partition as that would be only used to get back to the Out Of Box state. But other partitions are labelled a bit differently from what I'm familiar with. So The only data I have on the laptop is inside the C: drive. I just don't want to destroy one of the small partitions Windows needs to start or run. Many Thanks, John

Here is the Disk Management view and the MiniTool Partition Wizard image.

Windows GPT partitioning can have 128 partitions.

End users may have preferences and can modify partitions: delete, modify size, change label, etc.



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

Run this command in a Command Prompt (admin) first:
reagentc /disable

Delete everything to the right of C: drive and expand C: drive to fill the remaining space.

Then in a Command Prompt (admin) again, run:
reagentc /enable

Thanks for both replies. Before making changes to the C: partition do I need to disengage the Encryption in order to change C? Would a change to C: nullify reemploying Bitlocker?
John

I don't think so, but I have never encrypted, so don't know for sure. To expand C: drive open disk management and right click on C: drive and select extend. I would think if you extend it in disk management, it should take care of everything.

There's an unanswered question here ...

starchase said:

I'm thinking of repartitioning and am wondering if you have any suggestions as to which partitions to remove and melt into another.

Why repartition? Is anything broken?

margrave55 said:

There's an unanswered question here ...Why repartition? Is anything broken?[/COLOR]

No, everything is working fine. The wasted space in the recovery partitions is annoying. So it would make more sense to me to make them part of C. Or I could also Make a separate partition as a Data partition, reducing C and making the recovery partitions into a larger D partition.

The whole issue of "is repartitioning needed at this time" and there is the off chance things could go sideways and make me regret my decision, makes me postpone doing anything like this to the machine presently. There is still plenty of room on it so I have a lot of time to wait before needing to do anything about disc space.

Thanks to you all for some good ideas and things to think about.

John