Windows 10: Question re combining two partitions into one partition on SSD

I have replaced a 256GB SSD M2 C Drive on my laptop with a larger 500GB SSD M2.
Below is an image of the new 500 GB C drive which I have just restored from a macrium image. I want to have the maximum space I can get out of the drive
Is the recovery partition needed if I have a macrium rescue disk?
Can I delete the recovery partition so the 237 GB and the 227 unallocated partition can become one 464 GB partition?

If I cant how can I combine the 237 and 227 into one contiguous partition?






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Partitioning an SSD

Before I get to your questions, I would like to suggest that you make primary partitions, instead of logicals. The locations of primary partitions are entered into the partition table, whereas logical partitions are really a hack. The practical difference
manifests in the event that the logical structure of your hard drive becomes corrupted. It will be easy for partition repair software to locate the starting point of the primary partitions, in order to recover your data, but much more difficult and perhaps
impossible to locate the beginnings of your logical drives.

With that said ...

1- Is it okay to partition a SSD? Yes! And it's a good idea, for all the reasons you stated.

2- Would it affect access time? No, it would not, because SSDs don't have actuator arms that move read/write heads into position. Instead, data is read and written at the speed of electricity.

3- You should create a primary partition, as described above. Primary partitions increase the chances of successfully recovering your data.

 

W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Combining UA Partitions

Try these MT Solutions Partition Wizard( looks just like Paragon's and works on 32 or 64 bit ) or/and Paragon's Partition Manager Express Free Edition 2010 Build 9095(link on page for 64 bit version under the other download links).

The one from MT Solutions is the one I used to clean up and combine the wife's laptop partitions.