[SOLVED] AOMEI & Disk Management differ?

[mycdnprince]

Hi there,
Yesterday I merged two partitions using AOMEI Partition Assistant. One was an unallocated 16mb with my C: drive. Everything appeared to go well but now there seems to be a discrepancy between what AOMEI says I have in the way of free space on Partitions 1, 3 and 6 and what WIN 10 Disk Management says (see images). Can someone shed some light on this?

 

[USAFRet]

In AOMEI, which equate to 1, 3 6 in Disk mgmt?

16MB?
That could very easily be a simple rounding error.

 

[mycdnprince]

Go by the capacity... i.e. 1, 3 and 6. 16MB has nothing to do with my question. I only mentioned doing a merge as right after I noticed the discrepancy between what AOMEI said I have (which is correct) and what Disk Management says.

 

[USAFRet]

Presumably you've rebooted before the Disk mgmt image was captured?

All of those, esp Partition 1, can't be 100% "empty". There is data in that partition to allow the system to boot up.

 

[mycdnprince]

Presumably you've rebooted before the Disk mgmt image was captured?

All of those, esp Partition 1, can't be 100% "empty". There is data in that partition to allow the system to boot up.

Yes, I rebooted. I agree. AOMEI is stating correctly. Disk Management is ^not, for some reason I cannot figure out?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I rebooted. I agree. AOMEI is stating correctly. Disk Management is ^not, for some reason I cannot figure out?

Personally, if the thing is working, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[mycdnprince]

Really? I was wanting (if I could) to merge these smaller partitions into my C: or F: drives but now I'm afraid to do so, especially not knowing if theses partitions can or should be merged, or not?

 

[USAFRet]

Really? I was wanting (if I could) to merge these smaller partitions into my C: or F: drives but now I'm afraid to do so, especially not knowing if theses partitions can or should be merged, or not?

Nooooo!
Those are required to exist.

That is NOT things you can merge.
Boot partition, recovery.

The system won't let you
Even if you could, it would kill the system - No boot for you
Even if you could, the size of those is trivial. You'd be gaining tenths of a percent.

 

[mycdnprince]

OK. Thanks for the input. Much appreciated!

 

[SkyNetRising]

I was wanting (if I could) to merge these smaller partitions into my C: or F: drives but now I'm afraid to do so, especially not knowing if theses partitions can or should be merged, or not?

Recovery partitions can be deleted, if needed.
Do not touch EFI system partition though. Bootloader lives there. If you mess this up, system becomes unbootable.