Windows 10: Dual Boot, what partitions can I remove?

My apologies - I was looking at the volume numbers not the partition numbers - doh!

 

Is that exactly what I need to do or do I need to research those commands, I'll double check the Partition number of course? And, again, I'm not deleting a needed Windows 10 Partition am I?

 

That is exactly what you need to do - assuming that the drive the partition is on is disk 0 - and the partition you want to delete is partition 3.

If you hold down the shift key and click on restart from the power icon on the start menu you will enter the Windows Recovery Environment menus. That is what you will lose by deleting that partition. After you delete that partition you will get a very limited menu. You can access the same menu by booting from a Windows 10 installation USB flash drive or DVD and selecting the troubleshooting option. You can also restore that menu by embedding the Windows 10 Recovery Environment files in your OS partition - but the thing with that menu is that it won't be there anyway if your hard drive fails.

EDIT: Actually, I was mistaken. The Windows Recovery Environment is already embedded in Windows\System32\Recovery (a hidden system directory). You won't lose the recovery menu by deleting the partition - you only lose the ability to access it if Windows fails to boot - then you would have to boot from a Windows 10 USB flash drive or DVD.

 

@NavyLCDR, ahh, that is very detailed and accurate, thanks again. I remember now you said that about the 450MB Partition before...sorry I forgot.

I like having that function so think I will leave it, so that is a big help that you reminded me about that function.

I wonder if I could just Shrink the C Drive and install Linux in between the Two? and if you think I should create a new Topic for that, or go to a Linux Forum. I can do the Install, just never installed in between two partitions like that.

Or, maybe I should shrink the C Drive and then Move the 450MB over to install Linux would be the better thing? That would be cleaner, I like clean LOL. Rather have Linux all the way to the End.

 

I would move the recovery partition to next to the end of the OS partition.