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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 EF...
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.
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).