On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:57:00 -0500, Tim wrote:

Jason wrote in
al-september.org:

I cloned the SSD C: drive in my laptop with the Acronis tool to move C:
to a larger SSD. After a glitch or two it worked. Now I want to
repurpose the drive I removed. I was able, through Disk Management, to
delete the old C: partition, but there is a small (40MB (remember when
that was large!?)) "OEM Partition" that Disk Management won't touch. How
can I get rid of it?


Are you sure that is a usable partition. If the disk is formated using the
new GPT disk/partition structure, it appears to reserve a small partition
at the beginning of the drive for its use. Most of my large data disks I
have set up as GPT, and they all have that small reserved space that
doesn't even show up under Disk Manager. But MiniTool Partition Manager
shows that it exists.

I have one 3TB drive set up as GPT but Minitool Partition Wizard Pro
does not show any reserved space on the drive.