101MB unallocated space on my SSD ?

scotslad

scotslad

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I understand that windows says when its installing it may create this space, but in reality, is it required ?

I mean, If I had a bad problem I would just reinstall windows, no big deal :D

I have googled for the answer but theres so many different people telling different stories and lots of the posts are a good few years old too that I dont like to trust them.

Is there a way to get rid of that 101MB unallocated space bearing in mind I have windows installed on that drive that has the 101MB attached ?

Thanks. ;)

p.s
I managed to fix what I am on about from system storage management with an old sata drive, but that was just one of the backup drives I have, so thats different, meant I had to format it too, just curious now if theres a way to do it on the actual windows drive without formating etc as that would be too much hassle for 101MB especially if it is actually required, I cant remember if it is or not ?
 
The 100mb partition that you can only see in Disk Management?

It's needed, it's where all the boot files are stored. Get rid of that and you can't boot into Windows anymore.
 
I can be deleted but you will lose the recovery utilites and encryption utility in it and will have to fix your active and boot partions. YOu may alops need to repair your install of windows with an install dvd or flash drive, quite some risk of things going wrong for a tiny storage gain.

http://itcookbook.net/blog/removing-windows-7-recovery-partition is helpful

Having the recovery utilites available on the drive is handy vs having to dig out a bootable dvd has been handy a few times!
 
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