I cant delete unwanted hard disc partitions.?

Question

I have Windows 10 [ build 16299] on my Samsung laptop. When I open  disc management, I can see the main C: partition, and the EFI partition. For some reason, there are also 5 recovery partitions, all of different sizes, that I would like to delete. Apparently, to delete a partition you just right click on it and a drop-down list of options should appear, one of which is the delete option. What I get is just a dialogue box with the word 'Help' in it. Clicking this just sends me off to the internet. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?

Laurence I · Answer

you cant just mess with partitions if you dont know what created them or why they are there.  windows 10 DOES have a way to help it with large external drives, by creating small partitions to help manage the external drives. so messing around by just DELETING them in an unmanaged way might screw up whatever the proper managed way is when you come to use that way later. if its a backup you want to delete then go to the place that you created the backup and use the proper managed way to delete it.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes that's another quirk with Windows 10 everytime it upgrades it makes a recovery partition it's supposed to delete the last one but it doesn't and sooner or later the whole darn thing crashes the only thing that I can possibly suggest to you is to figure out which one is the most recent recovery partition and use a partition tool like partition master to delete the other ones and then add the space back to the C drive

Lucius T Fowler · Answer

These aren't partitions, these are protected Windows recovery files. You can adjust how many of them Windows should keep in "system management, system recovery", but it's usually best to keep the default setting.

I cant delete unwanted hard disc partitions.?

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