HP Stream 13: Can I delete the extra partition in Windows 10 which is not marked "allocated".

I have improved my Stream 13-10 Windows.  It was very difficult to do and I ended up doing a clean installation (and pay for the cursed BONES) because I couldn't seem to do the upgrade work.

Now, I seem to have even less disk space I did when she used Win 8.  I have almost no programs installed, I keep all my files on a SD card, I ran disk cleanup, and I moved the "previous operating system" files on SD card.  But I still only 1.2 gig left available.

I read that win 8, there is a recovery partition that was needed to keep it in place.  But when I look at the partitions in disk management it says that there is a 7 Gig "unallocated" partition and a 250 MB EFI partition. In addition to the primary partition.

Is - this 7 concerts really unallocated as unused? Is it always a true recovery partition or is it just an artifact to win the 8 that is no longer used?  Can I combine the C partition and the 7 Gig partition unallocated, so I can actually reinstall MS Office?

Hi, Yes, looks like that when you have done the clean install of Windows 10, you did not wipe the entire hard drive clean first.  The 7 GB partition you see is probably the Windows 8.1 recovery partition remains.  You can delete it now that you run Windows 10, but you cannot extend the C: drive to include the recovered.

You can repeat the clean install new wiping clean the whole disc first. There are instructions here.  I had 19 GB available on my C: drive after a new installation of Windows 10 on my 11 flow.

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