After buying a new Windows 10 laptop, you may find there are many mysterious partitions in Disk Management, and most people want to remove them. So, in this post we will tell you what these partitions are saving and how to delete them.
Commonly Seen Mysterious Partitions on Windows 10 Computer
Right click "This PC" icon on desktop, choose Manage, and select Disk Management. Then, you’ll see all mysterious partitions on your Windows 10 computer.
It mainly includes System Reserved Partition (on MBR disk), EFI System Partition or ESP (on GPT disk), Recovery Partition (one or more), Microsoft Reserved Partition (on GPT disk), OEM Partition, etc. If you want to view contents saved in these partitions, please keep reading.
How to Access Mysterious Partitions of Windows 10
Using Windows Disk Management, you are unable to access those partitions except for ESP and System Reserved Partition (SRP). To view contents of ESP and SRP, you’ll only need to assign them with a letter, then show hidden folders from File Explorer Options, and open the partition(s). But if you want to view contents of other strange partitions, you need the help of third party program. MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition could show contents of mysterious partition in Windows 10.
Firstly, launch the program to get its main window:
Then, select the mysterious partition you can to access and choose "
Explore Partition" feature from the left side. After that, all contents will be shown:
See! Its so easy to access mysterious partitions of Windows 10 computer. Then, let’s talk about how to delete these strange partitions.
How to Remove Mysterious Partitions in Windows 10
MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you delete all these strange partitions, but it should be noted that some of them cannot be removed, otherwise Windows will be unbootable or system recovery is impossible.
Among all these strange partitions, you can delete Microsoft Reserved Partition without worrying about anything. However, EFI System Reserved Partition or System Reserved Partition cannot be deleted, because they are required to boot Windows. In addition, Recovery Partitions and OEM Partition can be removed if you have backed up you system.
Then, let’s see how to remove mysterious partitions in Windows 10 using
MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Step 1: select the partition you want to delete, and choose "
Delete Partition" feature from the left side.
Step 2: click "
Apply" button to make this change performed.
For more details of mysterious partitions, you can refer to the post Want to Quickly Know Strange Partitions on Laptops? Read This Post.