Understanding partitions

James1093 said:

Megahertz gave some very exact steps then confused me with The WDS256G1X0C is a M.2 WD Black and I suppose it isn't installed on the Intel DQ45CB. What's that mean? ( I have downloaded the file from your link, but not run it yet)
If I don't have to do anything, that's fine. Getting full is ok? And those few hundred MBs don't really matter now I see it better.

On your first post, image from Macrium Reflect showing the boot drive mention (top left) WDS256G1X0C but under your My Computer it says that you have a Intel DQ45CB that doesn't have M.2 slot.
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As you have a small unallocated space and your Recovery partition is small (latest Recovery are 850MB) I suggested you to enlarge your recovery partition using the unallocated space.

Windows Disk Manager is used to change disk properties but isn't accurate, doesn't show all partitions, and report wrong partition size and free space so I suggested you install MiniToolpartition Manager Free

This is the data for the Windows disk drive:

Code:

Disk 4 is now the selected disk.

NVMe WDC WDS256G1X0C-
Disk ID: E757C067
Type : NVMe
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1D00)#PCI(0000)#NVME(P00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : Yes
Pagefile Disk : Yes
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 9 NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 10 C NTFS Partition 237 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 11 NTFS Partition 521 MB Healthy Hidden

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 237 GB 101 MB
Partition 3 Recovery 521 MB 237 GB

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden: No
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 1048576

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 9 NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System

Partition 2 is now the selected partition.

Partition 2
Type : 07
Hidden: No
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 105906176

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 10 C NTFS Partition 237 GB Healthy Boot

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

Partition 3
Type : 27
Hidden: No
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 255036751872

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 11 NTFS Partition 521 MB Healthy Hidden

See these Microsoft links:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions



When available please post images of disk management and minitool partition wizard results.

Denis, substitute "becoming" for "getting" if that suits better. What I meant was the partition in Red may need attention so that's being contemplated. Resulting in some pondering.
Megahertz, apologies for hardware discrepancy, I will update... and then follow your advice re MiniToolpartition Manager Free - after complying with out zBooks message, if I can understand the links ok. Cheers.