Windows 10: Do I need small partitions besides c:?

I am going to reinstall Win10 from a recovery usb drive. The main SSD drive, in addition to C:, has SYSTEM 200mb, OTHER 128mb, and OTHER 5.08gb.


Do I need these ? If not, how do I fold them into C:?


Or can I reformat the whole SSD as one partition? If the latter, how as Windows initiates the reformat?


Thanks

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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

 

Resize partition C

In order to extend C and recover space from D, you will need to delete the 866 MB Healthy Recovery Partition and the Storage D:\ partitions.

There appears to be data on the D:\ partition.

I recommend you backup any important data on that partition before deleting it. After deleting the partitions, you will be able to extend C:\

Steps:

Right click the ‘Healthy (Recovery Paritition) and the
Storage (D’ partitions in Disk Management, on the contextual menu, click the ‘Delete Volume’ option. Click ‘Yes’ when the warning dialog appears.

The Volume you deleted will now appear as ‘Free space’, you will also notice that the disk icon no longer appears in the list of volumes.

Right click the Free space partition, and click Delete, click Yes on the Disk Management warning that appears.

The volume will now appear as Unallocated. Our next step is to merge back that unallocated free space with the system partition
(C. Right click the System volume then click the ‘Extend Volume’ option on the contextual menu, click ‘Yes’ when the warning appears.

A wizard will now begin that will guide through the steps to merge back the unallocated space with your system partition.

The wizard provides a simple procedure to merge back the unallocated space with the system drive. Once you have selected the space, click Next, at the end of the wizard, you will see the amount allocated.

 

My c drive is a lot small than before. Is their a way to put the partitions i used for linux back in to my c drive.

Hello,

Thank you for posting your reply. Apologize for the delay in response.

Kindly try the steps below and check if this helps.

Open run command with Admin prompt, Right click on
Start and select Command prompt (Admin).

Step 1:

• Type diskpart and hit enter.
• Type "list volume" and hit enter to list all the volumes.
• Now select the volume which you want to delete from the list by typing
  "select volume 5" (give volume number which you want to delete).
• Now delete the volume by typing "delete partition override"

Note:

It is not recommended to delete Recovery partition. It contains all the recovery files to recover our system if it got corrupted.

Step 2:

• Open disk management by typing diskmgmt.msc in run command.
• Right click on C: drive and select Extend Volume to add space to C: drive.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank You.