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Help with partitions after SSD upgrade
After a clean install of win10, I installed a new SSD on my desktop PC by using macrium reflect to clone the HDD onto the SDD. The computer now boots from the SSD properly, and I use the HDD as a data drive and the default location for libraries (documents, music, pics etc).
After cloning the HDD, there are now some partitions with drive letters on the SSD that did not appear before, as well as a recovery partition (Dell original).
For some reason the recovery partition shows a drive letter (F:) in windows explorer and I can access it. However in Disk Management there is no drive letter and I can't do anything with it. Since I can't go back to Windows 7 at this point I have no need of that recovery partition so I'd like to recover the disk space, but I don't know how since I can't do anything with it in Disk Management.
Second, as you can see in the screenshot there are three other partitions on the primary SSD (disk 1): System (G:), Windows (C:), and an unnamed 450mb recovery partition. I believe all of those are necessary partitions, but what I don't understand is why the "System" partition is assigned a drive letter and accessible via windows explorer. In my other Win10 PC's those partitions don't show up in explorer, just in Disk Management.
I'm afraid sometime down the road I'm going to bork my system by messing with the System (G:) drive in explorer.
So...
1. How do I use the Recovery partition space?
2. How do I get rid of drive letter G: but retain all the necessary windows partitions?