Two system reserved partitions

[Sir_Awesome]

I have an ssd and a mechanical drive in my system and each drive has a system reserved partition on it. Which one is used for the OS? I have attached a picture 

[Cralineleader]

'Primary'.

You can tell by the Boot and Page File if you haven't done anything crazy with your OS. Also by the fact that it's primary unless you named it otherwise.

Usually C: is going to be your main if it's listed and you're not purposefully booting off of something else.

[Sir_Awesome]

1 minute ago, Cralineleader said:

'Primary'.

You can tell by the Boot and Page File if you haven't done anything crazy with your OS. Also by the fact that it's primary unless you named it otherwise.

Usually C: is going to be your main if it's listed and you're not purposefully booting off of something else.

So I could delete the reserved and recovery partitions on my secondary (non ssd drive)?

[Cralineleader]

2 minutes ago, Sir_Awesome said:

So I could delete the reserved and recovery partitions on my secondary (non ssd drive)?

If you want to be sure, check everything on the secondary. If you see a Programs Files or Program Files (x64) folder, don't touch it anyway.

Otherwise, should be good to go.

[Sir_Awesome]

1 minute ago, Cralineleader said:

If you want to be sure, check everything on the secondary. If you see a Programs Files or Program Files (x64) folder, don't touch it anyway.

Otherwise, should be good to go.

yea the only files on that drive is my steam library so i should be all good?

[Cralineleader]

2 minutes ago, Sir_Awesome said:

yea the only files on that drive is my steam library so i should be all good?

Yep, you'd be perfectly fine. You just won't have your steam library lol.

If you ever wonder, check the contents. As long as you don't see those program files folders on your Windows machine, it's safe to delete the partition.

[Sir_Awesome]

2 minutes ago, Cralineleader said:

Yep, you'd be perfectly fine. You just won't have your steam library lol.

If you ever wonder, check the contents. As long as you don't see those program files folders on your Windows machine, it's safe to delete the partition.

I dont want to delete my steam library just the extra partitions. will deleting the reserved and recovery partitions delete the steam library if i dont delete the main partition for that drive?

[Cralineleader]

1 minute ago, Sir_Awesome said:

I dont want to delete my steam library just the extra partitions. will deleting the reserved and recovery partitions delete the steam library if i dont delete the main partition for that drive?

Nope. What you see in that partition is what you have in it. Those other partitions can be made visible by assigning them a letter.

You'll be fine deleting them.

[Mira Yurizaki]

It almost looks like that data drive was formatted as a system disk for some reason, so I'm going to +1 in favor for deletion. Reclaiming the space if you want it might require another tool. I've never really had much luck using Windows' built-in partition manager in getting exactly what I want.

[Captain_WD]

11 hours ago, Sir_Awesome said:

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Hey there (I love the avatar!),

 

The easiest way would be to remove one of the drives and see if the system boots with the other. This way you can see if that particular drive holds your OS (unless you have another one installed on the other drive). If the system boots properly, you should be able to delete any partitions, files and folders from the other drive without damaging the OS. 

 

How did you end up with these partitions? Are you reusing one of those drives? Did you perform a clone procedure? 

 

Post back with some more info so we can give you some guidance if needed.

 

Captain_WD.

[Sir_Awesome]

5 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

Hey there (I love the avatar!),

 

The easiest way would be to remove one of the drives and see if the system boots with the other. This way you can see if that particular drive holds your OS (unless you have another one installed on the other drive). If the system boots properly, you should be able to delete any partitions, files and folders from the other drive without damaging the OS. 

 

How did you end up with these partitions? Are you reusing one of those drives? Did you perform a clone procedure? 

 

Post back with some more info so we can give you some guidance if needed.

 

Captain_WD.

yea a while back when i bought the ssd I cloned it off of this drive. I deleted the partitions on that drive and it was all good, booted just fine. Like you said probably partitions left over from the clone process

[Captain_WD]

16 hours ago, Sir_Awesome said:

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In this case you should be safe to delete the old system partitions from the old drive. Post back if you have problems or other issues. Also, don't forget to create a backup before doing so in case something goes sideways.

Captain_WD.