Dislike/hate how Windows creates multiple partitions when installing Windows 11

[River]

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/fileadmin/DigitalGuide/Screenshots_2022/win11_festplatte02_en.png

Does anyone else hate this? Just a general question sorry.

I know it should not make a difference but it does to me.

[River]

smallcat の投稿を引用：

oh ,i experienced this recently .it did this to me .i had 1TB games installed and it took so many time that i figured out what was going on and i was right .in the end the installation failed lol. Well ,i extended the C: partition and it succeeded lol . Stupid Windows .

Ok.

Mine will always be just one drive and one partition always. No matter what.

Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/3hR7i4z.jpeg

[River]

smallcat の投稿を引用：

Windows needs at least 2 even 3 partitions -first Boot partition , 2 System partition , and unnecessary 3 - Recovery . It usually doesnt show the Boot partition and the recovery in Explorer .

Yep but I use disk imaging software and it will show it.

I dislike like that a lot.

[River]

Does linux do this too ?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I got used to just configure the drive in DiskPart during an OS installer; before the actual install process. So that I could just have a single partition on what will be my OS SSD. Quite easy to do and it's a method many of us have used since the days of Vista/7 or so.

[Zefar]

Maybe you turned on an option during the install that made it create partitions?

Because I recently re installed Win11 due to my SSD dying on me but it didn't split it up.

[lsdninja]

gamer の投稿を引用：

Does linux do this too ?

Yes.

It can even get more complicated with Linux since in addition to the EFI System Partition (which is necessary if you boot in UEFI mode), you’ll typically wind up with at least a swap partition and some distros still insist on creating a /boot partition. Pop!_OS even creates a “recovery” partition, but I’m not sure exactly how that works since I’m not running a system76 machine.

…and this is all before we get to how it’s possible to mount whole drives/partitions into the file system. Don’t want stuff in your home directories eating into the main drive? Farm /home out to a dedicated drive (although stuff flatpak makes this a pain these days). You can do the same with /use and /opt as well so installed software has room to expand in to.

(It’s worth noting that Windows is technically capable of this as well, there’s just no install-time UI for it and you might need Server to even use the feature at all)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Zefar の投稿を引用：

Maybe you turned on an option during the install that made it create partitions?

Because I recently re installed Win11 due to my SSD dying on me but it didn't split it up.

Well because you already had the partitions setup.
If the drive is blank, then yes, Windows 7 and later creates approx 3 or 4 partitions during the OS install. That can be avoided by bring up CMD during an install to a blank drive, run DiskPart and Partition the entire drive and then the OS installer can't force those extra partitions.

Yours was already partitioned a certain way, hence why that didn't change for you.

[Omega]

There are technical reasons for this.

Your UEFI is not capable of booting from an NTFS partition, it is however able to read an (ex)FAT one.

On BIOS systems the boot partition is not needed. On BIOS systems the bootloader is stored in the MBR, and this bootloader then acted as a pointer to the actual bootloader living elsewhere on the disk.


The recovery partition you can nuke, but I wouldn't.

[Zef]

gamer の投稿を引用：

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/fileadmin/DigitalGuide/Screenshots_2022/win11_festplatte02_en.png

Does anyone else hate this? Just a general question sorry.

I know it should not make a difference but it does to me.

It's only an issue if you want to extend your system drive and the free disk space isn't directly situated next to primary windows partition.

I mean you can still do it with diskpart but it's a hassle.

It's good that windows automatically makes a recovery partition etc. just to keep those seperated from the main OS.

[Ralf]

I dont remember XP. But didnt Win7, Win 8.1 and Win10 create 3 partitions? I usually delete those on fresh install, but Windows Intaller creates them again.

I recently got some OEM drives and had a small partition with that Gnu Grub Ubuntu stuff on it.

[Omega]

Ralf の投稿を引用：

I dont remember XP. But didnt Win7, Win 8.1 and Win10 create 3 partitions? I recently got some OEM drives and had a small partition with that Gnu Grub Ubuntu stuff on it.

Only on UEFI systems.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Omega の投稿を引用：

Ralf の投稿を引用：

I dont remember XP. But didnt Win7, Win 8.1 and Win10 create 3 partitions? I recently got some OEM drives and had a small partition with that Gnu Grub Ubuntu stuff on it.

Only on UEFI systems.

Then why is it even on UEFI with only an NTFS partition, can by BIOS look directly at my C Drive and see all the files within a listing right within the BIOS? It's how I do BIOS updates even since it sees my NTFS drives just fine there is no need to make a USB Flash Drive just to do bios flash updates.

Win7, 8, 10 always made those 3 partitions, UEFI or Legacy, it didn't matter.

I have plenty of PCs with Legacy BIOS and these OS always made those 3 partitions; yet they are not needed at all. I can easily hookup a drive to either system, legacy bios or uefi and go into a Win10 install media setup, and after selecting the language, bring up CMD and go to DiskPart and make the drive one NTFS partition and Legacy or UEFI boots that just fine.

Maybe you are thinking MBR vs GPT ?