Windows 10: Can I Delete This Partition

I'm planning to tidy up the partitions on my desktop PC UEFI system disk. See the disk map below from Partition Wizard. I want to delete the old unused 300GB recovery partition at the start of the drive, move the FAT32 system partition to the start of the drive and extend the C: System NTFS partition to use up the spare space. I can't work out what the 128MB partition labelled Other is and whether it can be safely deleted? Note this partition doesn't appear under Disk Management.





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How can i delete Unformatted Primary partition of 128MB?

Original title: Unformatted Primary partition

I was going to use Macrium Reflect to create a mirror image of my SP3 hard drive when I noticed that there is a unformatted primary partition 128 MB that is showing. But if I r-click on This PC & go to manage...disk management it doesn't show up there.

Anyone have any idea how I can format this drive & use it as a storage drive for my ebooks or something like that?

(see images by clicking the link below of snapshots I took using snipping tool. Capture1=Macrium Reflect, Capture2=This PC manage disk management).

OneDrive folder

Thanks in advance...

 

How can i delete Unformatted Primary partition of 128MB?

Hello Cire,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand your issues with Windows 10. I will be glad to assist you with your issue.

The 128MB partition is a system partition and contains boot files. Disk Manager will not allow you to remove this partition because removing this partition could cause the system to not boot.

For further assistance feel free to post your queries in Microsoft forums. We will be glad to assist you.

Thank You.

 

Win 10 creates 4 partitions in the case of an EFI installation. Do not delete it.
UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions | Microsoft Docs

See 'Partition Layout'.

If you delete the Recovery partition you will lose:
- restart to Advanced recovery options on a restart (Go back to previous build, System Image Recovery, command prompt, System Restore, Startup Repair)
- automated repair on restart

The space simply isn't worth saving.

The partition you mention isn't visible in Disk Management for good reason- to try to protect it.

 

That is the Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR). As @dalchina says, it is part of the standard UEFI installation. Its function is apparently for future use with tools like bitlocker. Whilst not essential, and can be recreated, it is simpler just to leave it alone as it uses hardly any space.

 

The recovery partition at the start of the drive is unused - there is another one at the end of the drive which is used. I'll leave the MSR alone.

I just noticed my UEFI based laptop just has a 329MB FAT32 partition at the start of the drive, the main OS C: partition and a 924MB recovery partition at the end of the drive. It has no MSR but boots fine. How do I recreate the MSR as you suggest above?

 

Why fix something that isn't broke? But if you really wanted to add the MSR partition you would have to use a partitioning program like MiniTool Partition Wizard to create free, unallocated space where you would want the MSR partition, and then the commands in a command prompt window would be:

diskpart
select disk 0 <- or change the number if it isn't the first and/or only drive in the system you are working on
create part MSR
exit
exit

But, as you noted already, the computer is running fine without it and I've seen many computers run fine without it.