How do I clean this up?
Several weeks ago I had to do an Acronis 2014 restore to my C esata drive.
This is what it now looks like and everything is working fine but I would like to get rid of that extra 100 MB partition that occurred when I did the recent restore and consolidate the 401 MB unallocated space into my SSD C drive partition. Is there a simple way to do this or should I just leave "well enough alone" ?
I have an HP Envy 700 215XT with windows 7 and plan to update to windows 10 in the next few weeks when it come out.
Thanks
Jim
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Thanks for the reply. this is what my boot disk looks like using Diskpart commands
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Note that both 100mb appear in use.
Also note the 128 partition which does nor show in Windows Disk Management.
In size, these are mb and miniscule,
I would leave as is, exce[t perhaps investgate making the C partion a few GB (not mb) smallerr so the SSD has more unallocated room for memoey management. You can do some research for your brand SSD.
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Ok, thanks. If I did shrink the C partition by a few GB would it go to the 400 mb of unallocated space then? when I right click on the c drive partition Disk Management is says I have about 122 GB for potential shrinking. Just looking at my C Drive in My Computer it shows about 127 GB unused space. out of 222 gb total.
Thanks again for your help and recommendation. If I were to do a clean install of windows 10 eventually I would assume that would normalize all this?
When I setup the computer originally I just cloned the then 1 TB Sata drive partitions with its OS to what is now a Msata drive on the motherboard and now my C drive. I wanted the extra Sata drive slot for internal backup use. I do a Lot of photo editing with lightroom and Photoshop and never have any problems.
Jim
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A clean install of Win-10 would be to a blank disk so yes, an install of 10 should start you off fresh.
The 401mb unallocated is so small, it does not matter but that is a guess not a fact. Do a search on your brand sd forum and see what you find on flash memory management. I was thinking of a 5-10 GB of unallocated space at the end of drive C.
If I were you and your computer being availale is important to you, I woold consider having a spare bootable disk so if the main disk had issues,you could just switch disks and be back in business. One forum poster (Xpilot) had a desktop with quick remove inserts and every month (or more often) he took a full disk image backup; removed the working disk and stored away; and restored the recent backup on to a rotating storage disk so he always had a proven alternate which was no worse than a month from current and with backups which could be used to make the rotatin fully current.
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Thanks, sounds like a great idea and would not be that difficult to do.
Jim
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I checked the Crucial support site and there seemed to be unanimous agreement that there did not have to be any unallocated space on the drive for memory management since the newer MSata and Sata SSD's managed it it internally. Whatever all that means. I have no complaints at all about the processing speed of my system so I think the better part of valor is to leave it alone until I do my windows 10 update.
Thanks again for our help and education.
Jim
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