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Windows 11 left and empty 93GB partition?
When I installed Windows 11, it was on a blank 1TB NVME drive with no partitions. After the installation I am left with four partitions.
Disk Manager shows the following:
#1 = 100 mb EFI partition
#2 - 837 gb C:
#3 - 93 gb unallocated partition
#4 - 749 mb unknown partition (recovery? Does Windows user this space when doing a reset?)
I opened Diskpart to try to assign a letter to partition #3, but Diskpart does not agree with Disk Manager. There is no 93gb partition listed.
Why would windows leave a 93 gb unallocated space on my drive? Why doesn't Diskpart and Disk Manager agree with each other? Can I grow my 837 gb partition using the 93 gb space?
- Go to the disk management app, format the unallocated partition and assign a new drive letter to it.
- OP, do you have the issue fixed? I need some help on the same problem.
- Open Disk Management:
Right-click on the Start menu and select Disk Management.
Here, you can see all the drives and partitions available on your system.
Identify the Partition:
Find the 93GB partition in the Disk Management window. Look at its status—if it’s labeled as "Unallocated," it hasn’t been formatted yet. If it has a drive letter but appears empty, it may not have been used properly.
Options for Unallocated Space:
If the partition is unallocated, you can create a new partition in that space:
Right-click on the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.
Follow the wizard to format the partition and assign it a drive letter.- When you install Windows 11 on a blank drive, it automatically creates four partitions: the EFI System Partition (for booting), a Microsoft Reserved Partition, the Windows partition (for your OS and files), and a Recovery Partition (for system recovery).
- You can format the partition to take advantage of the unallocated free space. After that, the space will be available for saving data.
- Do not delete or mess with the system or recovery partitions, as they are crucial for booting and recovering your Windows installation.
- If you want to increase the size of your main (C:) partition, you can right-click on the C: drive and select "Extend Volume." Follow the prompts to incorporate the unallocated space into the C: drive.
- After installing Windows 11 on a blank 1TB NVMe drive, it's common for the operating system to create multiple partitions for various purposes, including recovery, system files, and user data. It sounds like you have a partition that is left empty, which can be confusing.
