DATA partitions on branded machines

[slipd]

Hi guys,

I've got two laptops that are almost out of storage space on the c: drive but I still have over 50gb of 'available' space on the d: drive which houses the system recovery stuff from the manufacturer. I don't intend to ever restore back to the manufacturers settings, I have my own os discs and I can use my laptop licence keys if anything did ever go wrong so I could restore my machines from there

I basically just wanted to double-check that I'm not going to affect my healthy c: partition by formatting the d: partition? Once I've formatted the partition I intend to delete it and expand the free space into the c: partition.

 

[slipd]

Definitely! I never usually backup but because its a branded machine, I have.

I ran out of space in the location I was saving to and the remainder of the backup was saved in another location. That shouldn't be a problem should it, when recovering? I know Macrium has the facility to save your backup in chunks.