SSD's 'NTFS Primary' is nearly full. Why is this and how to fix it?

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I am creating an 'image' of my SSD only. Using Macrium, it shows that the 'NTFS Primary' is red/nearly full.
Really not sure why this, what NTFS partition is used for, what it stored etc. How do I fix this/free up storage? Is this supposed to happen?

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That partition is used for windows recovery. Windows 10 does that to every install out there. You much rather that partition be as close to full as possible. Otherwise windows is wasting your expensive and precious SSD space. You do NOT want a partition like that taking up more space and being empty for the most of it, because then it comes at the expense of your C: drive where you actually want as much free space as possible.

If the red color bothers you, then there is no much we can do about it. Most people don't even look at the disk with macrium reflect like that.
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I expect you (or who ever installed Windows) have used GPT partitioning which creats several hidden partitions on the boot hard disk
even MBR partioning creates at least 1 hidden partion on the boot hard disk (with Vista onwards)

since no drive letter is allocated to the partition you cant easily access these small partitions
so dont worry about it.
But do copy all partitions when cloning or backing up the hard disk (or SSD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table


regards
Mike Barnes
 
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Hi

Yes I installed Windows 10 last summer on the new SSD i bought. I didnt create any extra partitions, just used the default way (whatever it was).

So this 'NTFS Partition' that is showing in red (nearly full), what information/files does it store? YOu can i cant access it, so its nothing to worry about. Do all people have this ntfs partition in red?

Ye, if I ever need to close/copy SSD, I would definately do ALL of the partitions, thank you!
 
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Hi

Yes I installed Windows 10 last summer on the new SSD i bought. I didnt create any extra partitions, just used the default way (whatever it was).

So this 'NTFS Partition' that is showing in red (nearly full), what information/files does it store? YOu can i cant access it, so its nothing to worry about. Do all people have this ntfs partition in red?

Ye, if I ever need to close/copy SSD, I would definately do ALL of the partitions, thank you!
 
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That partition is used for windows recovery. Windows 10 does that to every install out there. You much rather that partition be as close to full as possible. Otherwise windows is wasting your expensive and precious SSD space. You do NOT want a partition like that taking up more space and being empty for the most of it, because then it comes at the expense of your C: drive where you actually want as much free space as possible.

If the red color bothers you, then there is no much we can do about it. Most people don't even look at the disk with macrium reflect like that.
 
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