Want to delete 16 MB partition can I ? what is in it ?

[Ahsan786]

Dear all,

kindly guide as i have installed dual boot of redstone 2 and now i am short of hard disk space and want to resize partitions.
can i delete the 16 MB partition shown in the picture below safely to resize ? 16MB is fully used but i cant see the files in it , i have apprehension that redstone 2 might fail to boot if i delete it , kindly guide.

 

[RolandJS]

Do you make and do you have current backups, on external media, of your various partitions?

 

[Ahsan786]

i just copy required data from different partitions on my removable drive , but right now have not done so for a month or two.

 

[ArtPog]

Dear all,

kindly guide as i have installed dual boot of redstone 2 and now i am short of hard disk space and want to resize partitions.
can i delete the 16 MB partition shown in the picture below safely to resize ? 16MB is fully used but i cant see the files in it , i have apprehension that redstone 2 might fail to boot if i delete it , kindly guide.

Possibly you don't realize that you're referring to a 16 MB (MEGABYTE) partition - a trivial amount of disk-space. So leave it be.

 

[Ahsan786]

hi Artpog ,

I do realize , that is why i am asking that I want to delete 16MB partition it is known as MSR partition , so that i can resize my last partition on which i have installed windows redstone 2. I have apprehension that if i delete it my dual boot windows might be disturbed or system might not boot up.

 

[Ahsan786]

I deleted the MSR 16 MB partition , but was not able to resize the partition , as windows disk management and minitool 3rd party manager was giving errors , as a last resort i installed paragon partition manager pro and it did the trick for me and i was able to enhance the size of my last partition ( on which windows 10 redstone 2 is installed ).

 

[Ahsan786]

So bottoom line is that MSR 16MB partition can be deleted and it will not result in BOOT or OS shutdown issues !!