Extra partition after cloning HDD to SSD?

[JonnyLo]

I recently moved my OS to a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I used the migration software that came with the drive. My question is in regard to a 500MB partition that it created when I made the transfer. What is this partition used for? Is it necessary? TIA!

 

[COLGeek]

In Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management, how is that partition labeled? You are likely looking as a EFI or recovery partition, so yes, you need to leave it. This allows your system to boot or to recover.

 

[JonnyLo]

In Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management, how is that partition labeled? You are likely looking as a EFI or recovery partition, so yes, you need to leave it. This allows your system to boot or to recover.

Labeled as= D: 500 MB NTFS Healthy (System Active, Primary Partition) The other part of the drive=C: 232.40 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) The D: is empty, when I look at the drive it has no information on it and if it is unnecessary I would like to eliminate the partition and make the drive as one partition. I don't know why it created this part of the drive and I really don't know how to go about removing it because I can't re-clone the drive to an external and re-write back to the SSD because the C: drive is in use. Using MiniTools Partition Wizard, which gives the option to take a cloned drive and use it to fill a single partition that fills the drive space. If that makes sense to you. This really blows my mind because the initial cloning of the C: was done when I installed the SSD and I had no error message, on the other hand, as I said, I used the Migration software to move the OS originally.. Maybe this is why the D: drive was created? Any ideas?

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[JonnyLo]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Have a screen shot, don't know how to post it.. little help?

 

[USAFRet]

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[JonnyLo]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Have a screen shot, don't know how to post it.. little help?

Upload it to a site like imgur.com. Post the link here.

Detailed instructions on posting images on Tom's hardware.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2580030/detailed-instructions-posting-images-tom-hardware.html

Hope I did that right, you are looking at the C: and D: drives. Thank You!

 

[USAFRet]

OK...Disk 2, the OS drive.
That partition is required. But it does not need nor should have the D drive letter.
Remove that.

Right click the space in Disk Management, Change drive letter or path, Remove.
Be sure you're with the D partition.

Other than that, looks good.

 

[JonnyLo]

OK...Disk 2, the OS drive.
That partition is required. But it does not need nor should have the D drive letter.
Remove that.

Right click the space in Disk Management, Change drive letter or path, Remove.
Be sure you're with the D partition.

Other than that, looks good.

Thanks for clearing that up, i appreciate it!