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    What is this unnamed partition that should I believe be a recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Casowen, Jan 14, 2022.

  1. Casowen

    Casowen Notebook Evangelist

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    When I did a reinstallation I made the mistake of formatting all the small partitions in the hope of just redoing them all as if it where a new blank drive. However I ended up with 500mb of un allocated space in the end, to which I merged with a 3rd party software called AOMEI since evidently anything "to the right" of the main partition cannot be merged for whatever reason in windows 10. I was left with this in the end and its unnamed. Is there some way I can make this normal like disk 1 below?

    The current unallocated portion is what samsung magician did to do overprovisioning, which they claim increases life and performance.

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    Casowen, Jan 14, 2022
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  2. Tech Junky

    Tech Junky Notebook Deity

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    Delete it and then extend.

    If windows won't do it then use Linux boot disk and gparted.
     
    Tech Junky, Jan 15, 2022
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  3. Reciever

    Reciever D! For Dragon!

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    If it's deleted you shouldn't need to extend iirc.
     
    Reciever, Jan 15, 2022
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