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11-27-2017 09:20 PM
When I installed Windows10, there were three partitions which got created:
1) MBR - 100MB
2) Recovery 450MB
3) SYSTEM Partition: Rest of the HDD.
The partition was also in the same order. After successful installation, I created another partition out of system partition. So, System Partition (C) was 100GB and the D Partition was 365GB.
But I happened to see now, that my C Partiton has reduced to 99.2 from 100GB. Went ahead and looked at the partitions.
I see another partition listed as recovery (800MB) between C: & 😧
How did this happen? Did any of the drivers/Apps/Fixes, I installed from HP driver section create this extra partition? And what is it for? Is it necessary? Is it safe to delete it and add the free space back to C: ?
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11-27-2017 09:56 PM
System needs to create System partitions without assign any drive letter to store some sorts of system information and keep track activities from other partitions .
That is normal.
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11-27-2017 09:56 PM
System needs to create System partitions without assign any drive letter to store some sorts of system information and keep track activities from other partitions .
That is normal.
Regards.
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