Question Delete recovery partition from a cloned drive?

[maconai]

Hey guys, I bought a new SSD and used Samsung Data Migration to clone my previous drive (C: with Windows) to the new SSD. After the migration, I noticed the previous drive (used as a source for this data migration) still has the recovery and UEFI partition with sizes of 499MB and 100MB. The new SSD (used as a target drive for the data migration) also copied those partitions and is where the Windows is installed now. Now I have two recovery partitions with 499MB each and two UEFI partitions with the 100MB each on two separate drives.

Can I remove the recovery and UEFI partition from the older drive that has no Windows on it and leave the ones on the SSD that contains Windows now (new drive)? I can't delete it using the Disk Management from Windows, but apparently I can with diskpart. I just don't know if it's safe to delete them since they're not in the main drive anymore.

 

[rgd1101]

first, unplug the hdd and make sure it boot with just the ssd.

 

[maconai]

first, unplug the hdd and make sure it boot with just the ssd.

Yes, I already tested this to be sure, even after the restart with both drives the Drive Management confirms the SSD as the "boot drive". Even after that, I formatted the previous drive but the two unwanted partitions are still there.

 

[popatim]

Can you delete them with diskpart? You may need to boot the system without the drive being installed so that the system doesn't revert to using parts of the old drive.

 

[USAFRet]

Ideally, you wipe the entirety of the old drive.
There is no reason to keep anything on it.

But, a screencap of your current Disk Management window would help here.

 

[USAFRet]

And just "formatting" only gets rid of the partitions you see in File Explorer.
Commandline diskpart, and the clean function will fully wipe that drive.