What partitions Can I Delete? - Upgrading Sony Vaio To SSD

Chris Nicola said:

...that appears to be the way to go. Backup installed drivers and delete the Win RE and Recovery partition to save space.

You should boot that drive to Windows first and disable recovery before deleting the recovery partition. If you delete the recovery partition while recovery is enabled, then you will loose your only copy of WinRE.wim and never be able to enable recovery again.

Do not delete your Windows Recovery Partition without reading this!

zbook said:

1) Please run:

https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...p_plus_log.bat

https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...iskparinfo.bat

Post share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive


2) Post an image of the BIOS settings for:
Legacy
UEFI hybrid (with CSM)
UEFI native (without CSM)


3) Post an image of msconfig (system configuration) > boot tab

Why the hell do you keep spamming this nonsense - OP just wants to know what partitions he can delete.

Chris,

Bree said:

You should boot that drive to Windows first and …

Bree is correct and his opinion matches that of NavyLCdr in that link I gave you.
You cannot just delete the Recovery partition without doing that reagent routine [disable/enable].

1 Run the command reagentc /disable in an elevated command prompt / elevated PS window
2 Then you can delete the Recovery partition
3 Then run the command reagentc /enable in an elevated command prompt / elevated PS window

Chris Nicola said:

... the Win RE and Recovery partition...

That 1.4GB partition is called [in Disk mgmt.] the Recovery partition rather than WinRE partition even though you are correct about what it contains.
The 28GB one has no standard name but, because of its content, is often referred to as the factory restore partition.

All the best,
Denis

Chris Nicola said:

I was unaware that I had to disable recovery before deleting the recovery partition. I have learned something new!

Chris,

I've re-written post #10 to include the procedure instead of just a link to it.

You do realise that hyperlinks in this forum do not display in the way they do on other websites?
This is a link to post #10
Instead of the conventional underlined blue text, TenForums hyperlinks just appear in a bold, grotty-green colour.


All the best,
Denis

Try3 said:

You do realise that hyperlinks in this forum do not display in the way they do on other websites?
This is a link to post #10
Instead of the conventional underlined blue text, TenForums hyperlinks just appear in a bold, grotty-green colour.

As Denis [ @Try3 ] has stated, TenForums hyperlinks just appear in a bold.

Whenever I post a link, I ALWAYS put [U] at the beginning and [/ U] [ WITHOUT the space ] at the end of the link specified, so it forces an underline to clearly show it as a hyperlink.