Large amount of paritions, which ones am I free to delete?


  1. Posts : 100
    Windows 10
       #1

    Large amount of paritions, which ones am I free to delete?


    Hi, Ive already downloaded and installed minitool partition wizard.

    If someone would be so kind as to help me fix my harddrives partition minefield. When i installed windows 10 i did it with both other drives installed as well, and, for me at least, that usually results in what i remember being called the MBR installed on a drive other than c:

    Heres an image of the disaster.

    EDIT: looking at the pic, i have some questions. why is GPT disk 2 (an nvme drive, and c:) named disk 2? is that slowing my pc down? my e: disk 1 is a wd blue 6tb. disk 3 is an nvme ssd for games.

    Thanks
    Large amount of paritions, which ones am I free to delete?-partitions.jpg
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  2. Posts : 44,037
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #2

    Hi, you have 3 physical disks installed. As far as I can see, all your Windows partitions are on 1 disk.

    If you like, you can disconnect the other two, and check your PC still boots ok.

    The odd thing is your O/S seems to be on a HDD rather than benefitting from being on your SSD.
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  3. Posts : 100
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    hi, thanks for replying, however I'm reasonably sure windows is installed on disk 2, drive C, ADATA, 954 GB.

    This is what Im assuming is the case

    Disk 1 is a mechanical WD Blue. It is 6tb and has game installers, movies, music, etc etc. It is drive E
    Disk 2 is an ADATA NVMe SSD. It is 954 GB and has windows. it is drive C
    Disk 3 is a Samsung Evo 970 935 GB with game installations. it is drive F
    If i plug a USB thumb drive in, it becomes D

    is none of that true?

    I can disconnect disk 1 - is what im trying to say. its only a sata cable. what about disk 3? it is an NVMe SSD.
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  4. Posts : 44,037
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #4

    Ah, it wasn't clear to me you have 2 SSDs.

    If you can't disconnect or unplug it easily, you could hide partitions I guess.

    That idea was simply an optional pragmatic check to definitively show everything for your O/S is on the correct disk - you'd also need to check you can boot to Advanced Startup options (Recovery partition).

    If i plug a USB thumb drive in, it becomes D
    - yes, unless you had assigned a drive letter to that USB drive e.g. X - a useful trick in Disk Management so backup drives are always assigned the same letter, for example.
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  5. Posts : 100
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    hide partitions... ok ill try that tomorrow morning! thanks.
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  6. Posts : 18,467
    Windows 11 Pro
       #6

    If they are really, really bothering you....in MiniTool Partition Wizard you can delete all of the (other) partitions and you can delete the 498 MB partition at the end of Disk 2. Although, I would suggest you run:
    reagentc /disable
    before deleting the 498 MB partition at the end of disk 2.
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