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I need to free up as much space as possible on my hdd. I have the following partitions seen below:
disk management pic The 5th partition in particular is called: 13.96 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition).
What are the consequences of deleting this partition and combining it into C? Does it just mean I can't restore to factory settings? Or will it destroy my ability to backup the system using an externally stored system image? I don't have any boot disks or anything for this laptop, its a lenovo ideapad 510p. I have multiple backups made with lenovo's One Key Recovery (OKR). I don't know if I will lose functionality or not with OKR or my ability to use my backups. OKR was on my D drive but I moved it to my C drive and combined D to C for space, so maybe I'm good and everything is separate?
Again I am not concerned about losing the ability to factory reset, I have many backups on external drives, particularly one of it right when I got it.
Koko3433
Posted 2019-06-25T18:22:03.307
Reputation: 11
It appears I was mistaken about the One Key Recovery being something you can download. How to recover preloaded Windows if the hidden partition was damaged or formatted. If you want to use One Key Recovery don't delete the partition you are asking about. Since you no longer have a Lenovo partition you won't be able to reinstall it. Accidentally uninstall OneKey Recovery from preload Windows 10, how to get it back
– Ramhound – 2019-06-26T21:11:49.573I do have a lenovo partition right here on my drive. One key recovery works fine on my system. The contents of the recovery partitions stating they are empty is a trick, they are hidden from windows explorer. If you use command prompt u can see they are there taking up space. if windows explorer could see them u might accidently delete them – Koko3433 – 2019-06-26T21:46:48.163
If you can see them then copy the One Key Recovery installer files and delete the partition – Ramhound – 2019-06-26T22:22:46.627