Need Help with New SSD Drive

[Lastpilot]

Okay hi everyone.

I purchased a 840 Evo 250gb Drive and I've successfully cloned it using the Samsung software provided. I am running it now as my C drive and its working perfectly.

Running Windows 8.1

Problems:

-2 New drives also popped up
   -"System Reserved" Drive
   -"Data" Drive



How do I make these part of my new C drive?

[Frenir]

Have you tried to defrag/trim the drive?

[katushkin]

Shouldn't defrag an SSD.

[smknjoe]

It depends on the partition structure, but if they are logical and sequentially "after" C (it looks like they may be) then you should be able to blow them away under Disk Management and then add the free space to your drive.

[smknjoe]

Otherwise, I would boot off of a Linux distro with Gparted and modify the partitions that way.

...or leave them alone if you aren't comfortable doing it. It's not that much wasted space.

[Frenir]

Shouldn't defrag an SSD.

Thus why i put /trim after since it might be possible that he put an ssd and hdd in raid (although that would be stupid)

[smknjoe]

...also make sure "System Reserved" doesn't contain your boot manager!

[IvanIvanovich]

System reserved contains the boot and recovery files, and should be left alone. Typically Windows does not assign this a drive letter so just remove the drive letter assignment in disk management. Not sure what is data, could be an EFI partition... if so this should also be left alone as it is essentially the disk file table. I would just remove the drive letter assignment on that and leave it as well.

Edit - brought up my server which I have EFI disk on and it matches in size so...

[smknjoe]

I didn't notice that "data" was 100MB. I thought it was 1000MB. Ivan is probably right. Don't erase them. 100MB probably contains the MFT and 350MB is the default size for the boot manager since Win7.

[tp4tissue]

does windows even let you erase that?

[Lastpilot]

System reserved contains the boot and recovery files, and should be left alone. Typically Windows does not assign this a drive letter so just remove the drive letter assignment in disk management. Not sure what is data, could be an EFI partition... if so this should also be left alone as it is essentially the disk file table. I would just remove the drive letter assignment on that and leave it as well.

Edit - brought up my server which I have EFI disk on and it matches in size so...
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Alright thank you, I've went ahead and removed the drive assignment on the additional drives and everything is still fine.

Also, yeah for those that were curious, I am not running anything in RAID. Just using the SSD as a main drive and the other for storage.

I think that's a fix. I just wanted to make sure that having a "System Reserved" and "Data" drive wasn't something that needed my urgent attention. Since, of course searching "data drive" on google wasn't very helpful, lol.

Thank you everyone for your input!

[eth0s]

System reserved contains the boot and recovery files, and should be left alone. Typically Windows does not assign this a drive letter so just remove the drive letter assignment in disk management. Not sure what is data, could be an EFI partition... if so this should also be left alone as it is essentially the disk file table. I would just remove the drive letter assignment on that and leave it as well.

Edit - brought up my server which I have EFI disk on and it matches in size so...
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Alright thank you, I've went ahead and removed the drive assignment on the additional drives and everything is still fine.

Also, yeah for those that were curious, I am not running anything in RAID. Just using the SSD as a main drive and the other for storage.

I think that's a fix. I just wanted to make sure that having a "System Reserved" and "Data" drive wasn't something that needed my urgent attention. Since, of course searching "data drive" on google wasn't very helpful, lol.

Thank you everyone for your input!

well, you resolved it, but I was going to say to ignore it.  Windows 8 always partitions off that ~348 MB of space for itself.  Some kind of glitch caused it to give drive names to the partitions though.  Must have to do with device driver.  Or MS hates Samsung.  W/e, the "geniuses" at Microsoft will eventually come up with a fix/ patch for this.  So don't do anything was going to be my advice.