[SOLVED] Deleting a partition and keeping the other

[snipester90]

So i've recently bought a laptop with a 256 GB SSD and it came already partitioned in two, having one small partition of around 5 GB with drivers for the laptop, thing is i don't want those 5 gigs left unused and would like to delete the partition and have those 5 gigs back in normal usage with the one partition, is it possible without formatting the drive all over again?

Here's a picture from disk manager:

 

[USAFRet]

So i've recently bought a laptop with a 256 GB SSD and it came already partitioned in two, having one small partition of around 5 GB with drivers for the laptop, thing is i don't want those 5 gigs left unused and would like to delete the partition and have those 5 gigs back in normal usage with the one partition, is it possible without formatting the drive all over again?

Here's a picture from disk manager:

Are you sure that 5.47GB partition is not for the Factory Recovery function?

 

[snipester90]

No, the factory recovery partition is the first one, the 499 MB one...

 

[USAFRet]

No, the factory recovery partition is the first one, the 499 MB one...

No, that was created by Windows.
For a laptop, the manufacturer usually includes a partition will allows the system to be retruned back to Out Of The Box condition.
They are required to give you the means of a full reinstall. It used to be a couple of DVDs. Now, it is just a partition on the drive (to save a couple of $$).
It's not really critical, but thats what it is. Look in the user manual for how to invoke this. You should be able to cause that to write a USB or a couple of DVD's.
Stash that away for safekeeping.

Then, you can eradicate that partition.
To merge it, you'll have to use a 3rd party partition tool. If they were nest to each other, you could use Disk Management. But they aren't, so...

Minitool Partition Wizard can probably do this.