I deleted a volume on my HP 15-g088ca laptop and would like to extend the c: drive to the resulting 18.2GB of unallocated space but have a 1.69GB healthy primary partition in the way (see screen grab). The 1.69GB partition is listed as not having the boot, file page, and crash dump, but I don't know what's on it.
Should I be very afraid to delete this? It's my PC, which started out as a Windows 8.0/8.1 machine, so possible it was left over from a prior OS, or maybe I installed a dual boot at one time. Regardless, my data's all backed up, so as long as it doesn't brick the PC, I'm OK with losing whatever's on it.
I googled and found lots of hits for adding and deleting partitions but nothing about how to determine whether the partition I want to delete could have system files that would brick my PC if deleted.
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Generally critical system-generated partitions will be near the beginning of the drive, so this is likely not critical. However, the partition is NTFS, so you could try assigning it a drive letter to review the contents before making that determination. If you don't see any contents, try showing hidden & system files. Or you could run a tool such as Recuva (I have no relationship) to see what used to be there.
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