How do I delete my Samsung SSD Overprovision Partition?

[GamerBlake]

Hello everyone,

Quick question: I have a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD and I used Samsung Magician "Overprovisioning" when I first got it and it recommended I use 10% of my ssd for Overprovisioning so I enabled it but now I've learned there was no point in doing that so Im wondering if it's possible to remove the Overprovisioning partition and reclaim some of that very expensive storage?

Simply put I want to combine the 93 GB of "Unallocated" space with the 837GB of space so it's one partition rather than 2.

Here is what it looks like:

[Jumballi]

I believe you can reduce its size in samsung magician

[Mira Yurizaki]

You can't use it at this point for C: unless you move C:, because the Recovery Partition is in the way. However considering it somehow doesn't look like the bootloader partition (those are marked as "System"), you could delete it and be fine, you just won't have a Windows recovery environment.

 

There is partition software that can move partitions around, but this requires you to not be using the partition in question.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, Jumballi said:

I believe you can reduce its size in samsung magician

I tried that. It won't let me reduce the size below 10% which is what it's at.

[GamerBlake]

3 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

You can't use it at this point for unless you move C:, because the Recovery Partition is in the way. However considering it somehow doesn't look like the bootloader partition (those are marked as "System"), you could delete it and be fine, you just won't have a Windows recovery environment.

 

There is partition software that can move partitions around, but this requires you to not be using the partition in question.

Im not sure exactly how to do that? It is my boot drive though. It's my fastest drive (970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe) so I wanted to boot from it for fastest possible boot times.

[Mira Yurizaki]

29 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

Im not sure exactly how to do that? It is my boot drive though. It's my fastest drive (970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe) so I wanted to boot from it for fastest possible boot times.

Typically when you install Windows on a blank drive, the installer creates another partition that contains the bootloader, which tells where the OS is so it can boot that. Your 970 doesn't appear to have this partition because the bootloader partition is marked "System" in Disk Manager.

 

The easiest way to get all the space usable for your OS partition is:

• Unplug every drive from your computer except the 970
• Boot into a Windows install media (USB or DVD)
• Tell it to install Windows
• When the installer asks where you want to install Windows, first delete all the partitions on the 970, then tell it to create a new partition. It should create two (the bootloader one and where the OS will actually go).

EDIT: You could also try to find a bootable Linux distro meant for managing disks like PartedMagic, which should contain a tool that will let you move the partitions around. But the above is the most painless way I can think of without mucking with extra tools or ways to boot into an OS without using the 970 because you can't move the partitions around in the 970 if you're booting into it.

[GamerBlake]

2 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Typically when you install Windows on a blank drive, the installer creates another partition that contains the bootloader, which tells where the OS is so it can boot that. Your 970 doesn't appear to have this partition because the bootloader partition is marked "System" in Disk Manager.

 

The easiest way to get all the space usable for your OS partition is:

• Unplug every drive from your computer except the 970
• Boot into a Windows install media (USB or DVD)
• Tell it to install Windows
• When the installer asks where you want to install Windows, first delete all the partitions on the 970, then tell it to create a new partition. It should create two (the bootloader one and where the OS will actually go).

EDIT: You could also try to find a bootable Linux distro meant for managing disks like PartedMagic, which should contain a tool that will let you move the partitions around. But the above is the most painless way I can think of without mucking with extra tools or ways to boot into an OS without using the 970 because you can't move the partitions around in the 970 if you're booting into it.

So wait would I have to empty my drive to do that?