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Too Many Partitions?

  • 1 September 2020
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Hi! I've recently upgraded the SSD on my Razer Blade 15 2019 Advanced Model to a 4TB Corsair. I cloned my old drive (Which was an upgraded 2TB Evo SSD that I had also cloned from the original 500GB drive) and just made the two main Drive C and Drive D partitions bigger, but I also noticed upon completion (everything's working fine) that I seem to have a LOT of small partitions, I understand some are reserved for windows and there's a recovery partition, etc - but I still think I must have more than what's needed?

Can somebody advise? I'd like to get rid of any superfluous partitions and reclaim that space!

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Razer.Caziel
Userlevel 7
It is possible that the previous partition configurations were recycled during the cloning process. You should be able to just merge them though.
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Razer.Caziel
It is possible that the previous partition configurations were recycled during the cloning process. You should be able to just merge them though.


Well, yeah - but can you tell me what it SHOULD look like? Which partitions I need to keep and which ones can be safely merged without compromising any functionality?

If you could tell me how it ships, partition-wise, for example - that would certainly help.
Razer.Caziel
Userlevel 7
The first two on Disk 1 should not be visible and both partitions names as *: are highly likely duplicates of *: System. It's rather difficult to tell what goes where and merging which drives wouldn't cause instability. You're better off reinstalling Windows and manually transferring the files afterwards, so you have more control over where they land.
LiLmEgZ
Userlevel 5
I probably would've just ended up doing a clean fresh install of Win10 after upgrading/replacing the SSD which avoids the issues that cloning a drive can do, plus it will run a lot smoother too via fresh install :)

This method of getting ur Win10 OS put back onto a new SSD usually takes a little bit longer to get things up and running and going the way you like it but in the end the results of doing a clean install of Win10 are fantastic in most cases!

Also, cloning a drive used to be a highly preferred method on replacing/upgrading a drive back in the Win9X/XP days (granted your original drive u cloned from wasn't failing or dead), but now that Windows installs are pretty quick to finish up its installation tasks, its not really needed to clone a drive no more, and most of the time the latest Win10 installation medias has all the drivers you need to get going 🙂
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