Partition is only 16Mb - is this detrimental


  1. razbak
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    Win 10 Pro
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    Partition is only 16Mb - is this detrimental


    Hello all

    I've got a 1Tb SSD drive with several partitians.
    C partition holds the operating system - Win 10 and the D drive is for video, photography and a small amount for business.

    On C is a curiosity I'd like to clear up.
    There are 5 partitians on C - Recovery 450Mb NTFS (11 Mb used), 100Mb FAT 32 (30Mb used), - now for the interesting one - 16Mb "other" ie not NTFS or FAT32 (full- all used up), C - NTFS (the operating system section) 230Gb (94Gb used) and finally NTSC 825Mb(610 used).

    Is there an issue about the 16Mb partition. Should it hold more as opposed to being full? And that partition is tiny!

    I notice my download section on the D partition is quite slow to load - maybe 30-34 seconds. There is 27Gb of downloads in there. Is it slow because of the incredibly small and full "other" 16Mb partition and what is that one for anyway.

    General video editing is not that same though - it is not slow to use.

    An images of the partitions is attached.

    Can someone shed some light please.

    Thank you if you can.
    Win 10 22
    Hello all

    I've got a 1Tb SSD drive with several partitians.
    C partition holds the operating system - Win 10 and the D drive is for video, photography and a small amount for business.

    On C is a curiosity I'd like to clear up.
    There are 5 partitians on C - Recovery 450Mb NTFS (11 Mb used), 100Mb FAT 32 (30Mb used), - now for the interesting one - 16Mb "other" ie not NTFS or FAT32 (full- all used up), C - NTFS (the operating system section) 230Gb (94Gb used) and finally NTSC 825Mb(610 used).

    Is there an issue about the 16Mb partition. Should it hold more as opposed to being full? And that partition is tiny!

    I notice my download section on the D partition is quite slow to load - maybe 30-34 seconds. There is 27Gb of downloads in there. Is it slow because of the incredibly small and full "other" 16Mb partition and what is that one for anyway.

    General video editing is not that same though - it is not slow to use.

    An images of the partitions is below.

    Can someone shed some light please.

    Thank you if you can.
    Win 10 v22H2 (OS build 19045 4046)
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  3. cereberus
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    The 16 MB partition is the hidden Microsoft Reserved partition and is quite normal. The first Recovery partition is a hangover from a previous update and is redundant.

    Unless space was seriously critical, I would just ignore it.

    Overall, apart from the redundant recovery partition, all is fine.
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  4. Megahertz
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    On the early Windows system, the recovery partition was the first one. As it couldn't expand to the right, nowadays it is after the C: partition.
    The first 450M partition was the recovery partition. As it needed more space, Windows shrinked the C: partition and created a new Recovery partition after C: (that is also small for today standards. Should be about 1G).
    The first partition is now useless.

    Partition is only 16Mb - is this detrimental-uefi-partitions.png

    System = EFI - 100M Fat32
    MSR - 16M RAW
    C: big NTFS
    Recovery - 1G NTFS
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  6. razbak
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    Really appreciate the insights gentlemen. Thank you both
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  7. Steve C
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    Windows 11 Pro 64 bit
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    For the the recovery partitions you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard to peruse the contents of each partition to work out which is the oldest one which can be safely deleted then the space recovered.
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