Can I delete 'healthy primary partition'?

[boing]

I'm making a bit of space on my laptop as I'm running out of storage and so decided to delete the recovery partition (10GB) as it's for Win Vista and I've put Win 7 64 bit on it already. I've deleted that partition but I cant extend the C: into it so I'm guessing one of the other two partitions are in the way, one says Healthy (OEM partition) 110MB and the other says Healthy (primary partition) 2.5GB



Can I delete these partitions? I haven't created them myself and they aren't visible/useable in windows.

 

[rasczak]

Yes.

 

[boing]

Have you any idea what they are created for?

 

[Dahak]

The reason why you cannot expand the c: to the empty space before is the extend partition only allows you to extend to the free space After the partition that you are expanding.

To use the 10GB free that you currently have, you would have to use something line Gparted(LiveCD) and you can move the current partition to the start of 10gb and extend it

The 110MB partition is usually created anyway when install windows 7, its used for boot files and bitlocker. I I have also seen oems put diagnostic tool in there as well. For this I would leave it alone.

for the 2.5GB free that you have at the end, depending on the oem again could be used for some boot up options/diag tools/ recovery tools
you should be able to right click on it and assign a drive letter to see what is on it

 

[boing]

OK thanks for the feedback I'll look into Gparted, I've tried assigning a letter to the last partition but it's not giving me the option to. It's a dell laptop by the way.

 

[ViRGE]

Since a file system isn't listed on the last partition, assuming it's not a garbage partition then it's not in a format that Windows can read anyhow.

 

[JackMDS]

Given the size of the Drive and the size of the space that you are "robbed" of, it might be a good time to upgrade the Drive.

Large 2.5" Drives can be found for $60.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136567

If you would like a flexible free App. to investigate further your current HD you can try this.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html (The $39 pro edition does GPT too).

 

[Gintaras]

Given the size of the Drive and the size of the space that you are "robbed" of, it might be a good time to upgrade the Drive.

Large 2.5" Drives can be found for $60.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136567

And for $10 more - $70, you can get twice as much - 1TB plus Free external case for HDD...

"Robbed"? Everytime you buy a HDD you're "robbed" - when you buy 1TB, all you get 931G of HDD space...

As per OP, I myself, don't like any partitions I don't want on my computer HDD...

I do know only 2 partitions on HDD :
C - OS and programs installed
D - your data - movies, pictures, music...etc....

all other partitions for me - like a weed in a backyard.....

Recovery has to be kept on other media - CDs, DVDs, USB sticks...
Data, IMPORTANT data on D partition has to be kept on external HDD - backup....

 

[F1shF4t]

...
"Robbed"? Everytime you buy a HDD you're "robbed" - when you buy 1TB, all you get 931G of HDD space...
...

You get 1TB when you buy 1TB. It just so happens to be only 0.931TiB. Windows shows binary sizes but labels them using decimal units.

 

[Gintaras]

You get 1TB when you buy 1TB. It just so happens to be only 0.931TiB. Windows shows binary sizes but labels them using decimal units.

Do I or you get 1TB....

Then...show us, how you copy 1TB of Data to 931G of HDD in Windows?

What you can use - is what you get...doesn't matter, how is it labeled....

So, don't say you get 1TB when you buy 1Tb ADVERTISED...because you won't get 1Tb...

OS isn't the place for this debate. It needs to go to Storage
-ViRGE