Windows 10: Weird disk partitions after a Windows upgrade - safe to delete?

Hi

I'm running Windows 10, Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.1016)

I noticed that my main SSD disk had an extra partition suddenly. It used to just be the C: drive but now there is a G: drive as well. (image attached)
Do you think it would be safe to delete this partition? There are no files on there:
G:\>dir /s /b /a:h
G:\$RECYCLE.BIN
G:\$WINRE_BACKUP_PARTITION.MARKER
G:\Recovery
G:\System Volume Information
G:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3873808609-2474160929-3200262091-1001
G:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3873808609-2474160929-3200262091-1001\desktop.ini
G:\Recovery\Logs

G:\>dir /s /b
G:\Recovery\Logs\Reload.xml

I'm also not sure what those other two partitions are being used for. Neither of them is marked as a recovery partition. Would they be safe to delete as well?

G:\>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

:)

 

Weird disk partitions after a Windows upgrade - safe to delete?

This is what Minitool Partition Wizard shows for the G: drive, and for the partitions. Strange that there are two partitions with status "None" with similar size to the "Active & System" partition.









Looking at the other two partitions with the partition explorer, they are almost identical, with bootmgr and Boot folders. The "Active & System" partition also has a folder called "Recovery" though it is empty according to the partition explorer.

 

Weird disk partitions after a Windows upgrade - safe to delete?

If you were to post a screenshot using a 3rd party partition manager such as Minitool Partition Wizard, things would be clearer.
Further, you could explore the partition content (rt click the partition, click explore), and be able to see if it is indeed a recovery partition.





You will have noted you have no active Recovery partition. That is potentially correctable.

 

Can I safely delete certain partitions?

All the partitions to the right of C:\ can be safely deleted. I noticed you have some substantial unallocated disk space that you should try recovering.

After deleting the suggested partitions, the Volumes 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.