My laptop originally came with Win 8.1, the 64Gb drive has a 15Gb recovery partition. I've since upgraded to Windows 10 so I don't think this recovery partition makes much sense – anyway I could do with the space!
This question guided me to the Win10 disk management tool: How to join two primary partitions windows 10
However right-clicking on my D: drive I get no options other than 'help' in the context menu…
Is there an easy way I can delete D: so I can extend C: onto it? Why is it not being permitted?
As a side question, what are the random unnamed partitions of a few hundred Mb each?
Best Answer
WARNING YOU CAN REALLY MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, IF YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING THIS THEN I SUGGEST YOU DON'T, ALSO I SUGGGEST YOU BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU BEGIN
cmd
(this is called command prompt)diskpart
and hit enterlist disk
and hit enterselect disk <numberofdrive>
list partition
and find the partition you want to work withselect partition <numberofpartition>
delete partition
(WARNING ONCE YOU DO THIS THERE IS NO GOING BACK) and hit enter , if it says "cannot delete a protected partition..." usedelete partition override
(Note you will also have to repeat these steps with the partition in front of the recovery partition if you plan on extending the system volume)exit
and hit enter