Deleting Partitions when installing windows 10

Steven_96

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Jul 20, 2016
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Hi,

If I do a clean install of my windows 10 v 1803 I see that windows creates additional partitions. Now I would not do anything with My slave drives and I know what they are because they all have names next to them so they are easy to spot. Now the extra partitions that windows 10 creates when installing windows. How would I go about deleting those partitions and merging that extra space back to the c drive. befoe windows 10 1709 is installed Like when you see the screen that says where do you want to install windows and you see all these extra partitions Only the ones that windows created. Those are the ones I want to delete and have that space merged back to the primary c drive. Question? I see that there is 99mb Helthy efi system partition. I would have to keep this partition and not delete it right? doesn't it contain the windows boot files and if I go ahead and delete it I will not be able to boot back in to windows right? But the rest of the partitions only the ones that windows creates will be safe for me to delete right? And then for the c drive should I delete the ssd partition and create a new one and install windows using that or should I just do nothing with this partition not delete it. and Put windows on it? Cause I'm not sure windows removes everything If I don't highlight the partiton and the hit delete and then install windows where the unallocated disk space is that the delete created?

Thanks so much!!
 
Solution


What "extra space"?
There might be one or two system partitions created. 100MB or 500MB each. Tiny and required.
Those...you leave alone. "System Partitions"....do not mess wit hthem.

Now...if there are other things..show us a screencap of the Disk Management window, and we can assess.
But how can want to merge that extra space back to the c drive how can I do this. The partitions that windows creates It's reuiered and as long as it's on the c drive I'm thinking it should be okay as long as I merge it back. I'm not sure it matters if the extra partitions are there or not as long as windows can see that data and it can because it will be on the primary drive the ssd 500 gig
 


What "extra space"?
There might be one or two system partitions created. 100MB or 500MB each. Tiny and required.
Those...you leave alone. "System Partitions"....do not mess wit hthem.

Now...if there are other things..show us a screencap of the Disk Management window, and we can assess.
 
Solution
There was a recovery 500mb healthy uefi partition and I used aoemi Partitioning software and merge the data back to the c drive after I deleted it and turned it into unallocated disk space and it worked. They are just recovery files you don't need them.

Thanks for your help