Unlabelled Volume On HDD


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #1

    Unlabelled Volume On HDD


    Looking at My HDD with Disk Manager and also Partition Master I see I have an unlabelled partition.
    (see screenshots below)

    Could this be left over from an earlier OS?
    Did have XP then added Win7 (dual boot) then removed the XP partition.

    Disk Mgr says 7.81 GB of 7.81GB Free, EPM says 7.81 GB of 7.81GB used.

    Can anyone advise Me; would there be any risk in deleting it?

    Thanks

    Unlabelled Volume On HDD-disk-manager.jpg

    Unlabelled Volume On HDD-epm.jpg
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  2. Posts : 1,872
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1,
       #2

    Welcome.

    It may be a factory recovery partition from your old operating system. What operating system did the computer come with?
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Windows XP and I get the feeling you're right!

    Vaguely recall from back then something about burning a recovery disc (which I did) then having the option to delete something from the HDD.

    I guess I could make a backup image of the whole HDD (just in case) then delete the mystery partition and see what happens?
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  4. Posts : 1,872
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1,
       #4

    Sounds like a plan.
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Imaged, partition deleted, re-booted and all seems well.

    Disk Mgr even reported "this partition has not been made by Windows" when deleting.

    I was just wanting to be sure, I guess.

    Thanks pbcopter
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