OEM restore partition, option to delete when installing win10 or not?

[Exhibit13]

So my laptop has a 128GB SSD with a dedicated 7.5GB partition for restore (leaving about 120GB for main c drive) When midnight rolls around here in the US will I be given the option to remove that 7.5GB of wasted space on my HD (since with win10 restore a separate partition is no longer needed for restore and I will never be going back to win8.1) or will I always just have this 7.5GB of my HD tied up and I can never use it with win10?

Hoping someone in a timezone ahead of me knows the answer to this from experience on installing win10 final.

Thanks!

 

[Jack Neill]

You can always delete manually if you don't want it. With Win 10 you'll be able to clean install with a fresh ISO anyways so I would dump it..

 

[Exhibit13]

So no one has an answer? I guess I have to wait till midnight to find out, damn, 3 hrs away still!

 

[Exhibit13]

You can always delete manually if you don't want it. With Win 10 you'll be able to clean install with a fresh ISO anyways so I would dump it..

I understand I can manually delete that partition but then I need a way to merge it back into my main c partition, which as far as I know can only be done upon install from a USB with an iso and I don't have a win10 iso or win10 key, so I was hoping it could be done from the midnight upgrade by giving the option upon install.

 

[Jack Neill]

Give Easus partition manager a try.