Disk management messed up?

Hello, I recently installed Windows, and now my disk management is completely messed up. I have an M2 SSD with Windows, a second M2 SSD, and a small SATA SSD. How do I get my disk management back under control?

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verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Whatever you’ve done, it shouldn’t look like that.

Reinstalling Windows is announced. There should be no black partitions in disk 1, these are actually system partitions.

How it looks

Well noted, disk 1 is my oldest hard drive and the partitions on it are ancient.

And what are the pink and yellow? I’ve never had that before.

Broadway1234
1 year ago

Why you have 2 recovery partition remains questionable.

Also the before drive C: the partition with system reserved missing looks strange…

But in order to first create order on the system data carrier, at least 1 recovery partition would have to be removed. But I cannot judge which one is used by the system. If the recovery partition after C: was unused with 783mb, you could delete it and drive C: by 783mb + the free 785mb next to it.

Delete Recovery partition guide

In the end, however, a quick reinstall is faster from the hand than a thumbnail on the partitions themselves.

Best to secure all data before working!

If nothing goes to format data carrier 1 once and let Windows partition itself when setup.

Otherwise, you can also ask Aunt Google, as there is a banged guide how to delete the recovery partition and then re-create it.

This is how a common Windows installation looks. :

Broadway1234
1 year ago
Reply to  Joker9977

Yes, with the setup, Windows asks you which disk it should be installed. If it detects your old Windows when setup, it will ask you whether you want to upgrade or reinstall it. Then, of course, you choose the latter.

When you arrive at the selection of the disk, you simply delete all partition on it and select the deleted disk for installation. Windows then creates the rest itself.

boris45zgt44zut
1 year ago
Reply to  Joker9977

I still think the non-system panels remain dynamic. Windows itself is correctly installed except for the small, superfluous partitions. The other two plates are more important.

Broadway1234
1 year ago

If you still decide to reinstall Windows after the restoration of the SSD partitions, check which partitions you delete on which drive. In the data carrier selection, these are named, for example, in drive 0, drive 1, drive 2 .

It can look like that. :

  • Drive 0 Partiton 1
  • Drive 0 Partiton 2
  • Drive 0 Partiton 3
  • Drive 1 Partiton 1
  • Drive 1 Partion 2

Usw…

Remember, using the data carrier management, which data carrier numbers belong to the SSDs, so that you will not erase them in an accident 😉

Windows Install Guide from Minitool.com

A lot of success with you and everything good!

boris45zgt44zut
1 year ago

Oh, of course, you can also store the data on C: intermediate.

boris45zgt44zut
1 year ago

I have been using Windows since version 1 and can only tell you that I have abandoned the attempts at that time, as the risk of data loss is extremely high. Better you secure the data on an external drive and do everything completely new.

And then also really delete ALL partitions before installation.

Broadway1234
1 year ago

I don’t know what’s going on with the SSD and M2 Mix. That is why I cannot answer this combination. But it is true that a reinstall of Windows will not solve the problem of the other disk.

boris45zgt44zut
1 year ago

That on the C: drive is normal. You could theoretically expand the main partition by 900 MB.

With the other drives, the problem is that they are created as dynamic disks. From my own experience I can only tell you that it is very hard to correct this. So either leave it like this or re-particulate everything if there are no data yet.

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Nothing is normal on disk 1. The 100 MB block should not be black, but blue. The third partition should also be blue.

boris45zgt44zut
1 year ago

In a previous installation, the old partitions were not deleted. Who cares? The few hundred MB. It is possible to live with, even without the system being restarted.