Windows 10: Is there a way to delete EFI System and Recovery partitions from an SSD that was formerly...

Long story short, I recently yesterday got a new laptop. I found out the laptop has an additional slot for another M.2 format SSD, one of which I had at hand and unused. I managed to get the SSD recogniced by Windows completely fine, but there is one... annoyance with it: The SSD I installed used to belong to an earlier laptop of mine, thus it had Windows installed on it. I managed to erase the partitions on the drive that had Windows and other files installed onto, but I couldn't find a way to remove the "EFI System" and "Recovery" partitions. It's not a too big of a deal for them to be there, but them being there makes it impossible for me to merge two partitions I originally made for the earlier computer I used the SSD in. So, is there any special software that would allow me to remove those formerly important, but now unnecessary partitions?

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How to install Win10 when the Recovery & EFI partitions were deleted?

There are a couple of issues with the above sequence. First, @drpeppercan stated that they already deleted the EFI system and recovery partition. So why is there a select part 1 and delete part override in the command sequence? What is being deleted? The Microsoft System Reserved partition? Hopefully there is an MSR partition there because if partition 1 is the Windows OS partition, then you just deleted Windows. And if there is an MSR partition there, why delete it?

Second, without a size specified when creating the EFI System Partition, it is just going to fill all available free space at the beginning of the drive. If there was a recovery partition, EFI System Partition and MSR partition, that free space is likely to be 600 MB is size, so you just created a 600 MB EFI System Partition that only needs to be 100 MB in size.

Without seeing the layout of the disk with: select disk 0, detail disk, list part you can't really suggest an accurate list of commands to rebuild the EFI system partition. It's only guessing.

 

Recovery and EFI partition instead of System Reserved partition

I forced reinstalled my windows 10 after my boot got corrupted by deleting linux on dual boot.

Now I used diskpart to wipe my SSD before I began installation. When the Win10 installation is finished. I noticed that I have Recovery and EFI Partitions on Disk management. I'm expecting System Reserved Partition because based on some forums, you can only
get System Reserved Partition if you successfully clean installed the windows 10.

so that I think I believed that I didn't clean install my Windows 10 because im getting Recovery and EFI partitions.

Please help how to can i get only System Reserved Partition not Recovery and EFI.

 

The Efi system partition deleting during clean install....

hi,

You are saying that i should not delete them (the EFI System partition) and just install windows to primary or main partition. Please tell me that i am correct in understanding this. If i am not, please give some easy step to do so.

Also, If i delete all my partitions including EFI and then click next to install windows, can't that be recreated. The disk looks like this





The MSR reserved partition i have deleted on previous clean install and also the recovery which was of win8.1 which i don't want. Please help.