Can I fix this without a Clean reinstall?

EdTittel said:

@Ztruker: FWIW, your partition layout looks normal and healthy to me. It more or less matches a "normal" layout resulting from a default clean Win10 install. Here's what my production PC looks like:

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The only reason mine isn't identical to yours is because I had Samsung Magician make a withdrawal from the C: allocation for over-provisioning of that drive (a typical SSD strategy to provide extra space for disk block/sector reallocation over time as or when blocks/sectors fail and need to be relocated). That's why you see that 46.xxGB block of unallocated space at the end of the drive layout in the preceding screen capture.
HTH,
--Ed--

Thanks Ed. I don't know why but it just looked strange to me. Thanks for the reassurance.

dalchina said:

Hi, Minitool Partition Wizard gives a different representation (and also shows the 16Mb system partition hidden by design in Disk Management):
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- this is shown in MT PW

Curious about the OEM designations in the Recovery partitions shown in posts above- presumably for 1803- at one time such a partition was being generated extraneously if I recall?

I looked at mine with Minitool and was able to remove the J: letter from the Recovery partition, so now it all looks better to me, thanks.



Many thanks to everyone that responded.
@zbook, thanks again for the links. I'm going to go do some reading now.

Ztruker said:

Thanks Ed. I don't know why but it just looked strange to me. Thanks for the reassurance.

Mine looks the same also. Clean install after the MCT for 1803 was released:

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