Can I delete Healthy EFI and Recovery for my HDD?

[HaroldOlivr]

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I just got a 960 NVMe PCIe SSD as my OS disk and I got all the drivers I need installed.

As you can see, Disk 0 which are D: and E: are from the same HDD with a total of 1TB are used for basically games and dump my useless shit.

I'm wondering if I can remove the 260MB EFI and 499MB Recovery since I don't need them??? Don't I?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Emerald]

No you cannot since those are part of the OS and needed to boot your system.

You should have installed you OS with the HDD disconnected.

 

[ArtPog]

Well, keep in mind the total disk-space taken up by those two partitions are relatively miniscule - less than 1 GB (and they're installed on a 1 TB drive).

However...

The Recovery Partition is sandwiched between two substantial data partitions on your secondary drive - the D: & E: partitions. So there's an inducement for you to delete that partition, since if you do the disk-space will become "unallocated" and then you'll be able to extend the D: partition to encompass that 499 MB of disk-space. Capiche?

Now you can use Disk Management to delete the Recovery partition. Sometimes you "luck out" and it deletes without a problem. Other times you may FIRST have to assign a drive letter to the partition (using DM, of course). Other times you may have to use Diskpart to delete the partition. But it will be done if you desire it.

But if you do delete that partition you must promise me and all the PC users in the world that you will take steps in the future to backup your system drive from time-to-time so that in the event your system drive ever becomes defective or the OS becomes corrupt as a result of a virus or other malware, you will have the means to return your system to a functional state. Do you so promise?

(And also consider backing up your secondary 1 TB data drive also from time-to-time).

Now I would suggest retaining the EFI partition. It takes up only a miniscule amount of disk-space (260 MB) and since it's the first partition on the drive it will cause no future problems.