Clean re-instal Windows 10 on SSD. Now I have too many partitions. Help?

virtuouslumox · Dec 15, 2017

I recently installed a new video card, 250 GB SSD, battery, and 16GB RAM in my PC and did a clean install of Windows 10. Problems arose and I had to do another clean install. Now I have 3 partitions on the SSD instead of just 2. 1st = 499 MB Healthy (Recovery Partition). 2nd = 100 MB Healthy (EFI System Partition). 3rd = C: 232.28 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). Is this how it is supposed to be? If it is not, how do I fix it?

USAFRet · Dec 15, 2017

virtuouslumox :

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

captaincharisma · Dec 15, 2017

sounds about right although they are usually hidden under "my computer" and have no drive letters associated with them other then the primary partition. did you only have the SSD connected and no other HDD/SSD drives during the windows install?

virtuouslumox · Dec 15, 2017

USAFRet :

virtuouslumox :

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AkP9e1kEeWgk1apVqq4qTuAerVNdRw

USAFRet · Dec 15, 2017

Looks normal to me.

virtuouslumox · Dec 15, 2017

USAFRet :

Okay. If it is normal. Can you please explain to me what the two partitions are that are not the primary C: drive?

When I did this the first time I swear that EFI partition was not there. What is it?

And given that I only have 232GB usable (minus the OS, etc.), what should I install on it vs. the HDD. So far I only have apps for my video card, Firefox, and Steam (so far all the games are on the HDD).

Also, can you tell me, is the Samsung SSD software necessary? Is it good?

I am new to most of this. The last time I was inside a computer was back in the XP days when everything was easy and simple. The parts I installed (now that I fixed my issue with this stupid text box I can actually list all of it) are an MSI AMD Radeon RX 480 4G video card, Samsung Evo 850 256GB SSD, 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix 1600 RAM, and an EVGA Supernova 650 P2 battery.

USAFRet · Dec 15, 2017

The Samsung software is just the Samsung Magician. Good for checking the firmware, and performance tests.

For a 250GB SSD, you can probably install ALL your applications, and maybe a game or two.
Everything else on the HDD.
Read more here:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

EFI partition explained:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition

virtuouslumox · Dec 15, 2017

USAFRet :

Thanks. I am running Windows 10 Home 64-bit. I tried to change where those default folders save to when I re-installed Windows, but I did it from Settings - System - Storage - More storage settings: Change where new content is saved. I do not think it worked even though when I check D is still selected. Because I did it this way will it be "messed up" as the article you posted says?

Weird thing. When I tried to tell OneDrive to sync on D (HDD) instead of C (SSD), everything on my desktop that wasn't put there by an installer (like screenshots, shortcuts I made) disappeared, but they were still in the File Explorer under Desktop. So I disabled OneDrive (the desktop items came back) and I re-enabled it with the default settings (nothing disappeared this time). Not sure if I like OneDrive on the SSD. And the automatic screenshots being saved to OneDrive when you hit Print Screen does not work. like it did before on my previous "8.1 upgrade to 10" install.

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