Extended partition?

[Kevin_Walter]

So I have a mysterious "Extended Partition" on one of my drives and I'm not quite sure where it came from or if it's safe to delete. 

 

Attached a screenshot. Disk 0 is the drive Windows is installed on, Disk 1 is my basic storage drive and where I install games and such, Disk 2 is my Linux drive. 

 

As you can see on the right, the Windows partition is 224 GBs with 13 free, which is reflected in the partition manager. So I'm not really sure what that Free Space partition is. Since it says that it's free space, and I seem to have no way of accessing it, shouldn't is be safe to delete it and then expand my Windows partition? Because all of the boot and system stuff is obviously on the Windows partition anyway.

 

The only thing I can think of to explain where this partition came from... is it may be empty space left over from when I had Ubuntu installed on the same drive as Windows. Though it's been a long time since I've done that...

 

 

[NTDaws]

did you ever accidentally shrink the partition size

[jj9987]

13GB of free space shown in This PC is the free space on the C partition.

 

That green free space in Disk Management is unused space on the physical drive, unpartitioned. You can just extend your Windows partition with that free 73.24GB of available space.

 

Sounds very likely it is left over from a Linux installation.