Upgrade from Win 7Pro/SP1 to Win10Pro - OEM Recovery Drive?

[Tristiacon]

I recently upgraded from Win 7 Pro/SP1 to Win 10.

I have an OEM Q:/ That is a recovery of Win 7. This Q:/ is using almost 17Gigs.
I already did a USB recovery of it prior to upgrading to Win 10. I also have a windows.old that is 21.9Gigs.

I want to remove both of them. I plan on creating another USB recovery of Win 10 so I'll have a recovery of both.

So, my question is this... Since I'll have 2 USB recoveries of Win 7 & 10, would it be safe to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to delete those partitions and not lose data or have problems after running the AOMEI program? I know its always best to back-up your files, but I can always download them from the cloud. I just don't want to run into a no startup or blue screen and have to re-install and re-download all the files!

I have found info on how to use AOMEI to remove the OEM Q:/ but I'm not to sure how to remove the windows.old.
I also read that after 30 days Microsoft will delete the windows.old... Is this true?

I really don't plan on going back to Win 7 but will the USB recovery work on its own without the OEM Q:/ Recovery drive?

Any feedback would be greatly appriciated!

Thanks!
T~

Hardware:
Thinkpad 11e 20D9 (Not a Yoga)
500 Gig HD

Update: I went into Disk Management and found 2 smaller partitions. I used to work on computers many many years ago and I'm a bit rusty, but something is telling me not to touch those. I've tried to post a screenshot, but for some strange reason, the site isn't allowing me to..

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Actually Disk Management is the way to go to format that Q drive. You can even merge that formatted drive into your C drive to make the storage space larger.

Please do refer to this support site on how to use Disk Management using the built in software from Microsoft and AOMEI:
http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

And yes you can still use a bootable USB with Windows in it if you want to install a fresh copy of Windows.

 

[Tristiacon]

Hi,

Actually Disk Management is the way to go to format that Q drive. You can even merge that formatted drive into your C drive to make the storage space larger.

Please do refer to this support site on how to use Disk Management using the built in software from Microsoft and AOMEI:
http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

And yes you can still use a bootable USB with Windows in it if you want to install a fresh copy of Windows.

Simple question... Will the windows 7 back up usb still work without the OEM recovery drive? I know it seems like a stupid question but I haven't done this kind of work in over 20 years. I can't seem to remember if the recovery usb drive relies on the OEM recovery drive.