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The OEM recovery partition is for restoring your computer to factory default settings when in serious problem. Since you have created a backup including all partitions, I think you can delete the OEM partition.

the recovery partition will not be a problem, as you can only shrink a partition from the right.

From Microsoft Help with upgrading to Windows 10 - Windows Help, under "Can i go back to my old operating system", "Note: If the manufacturer set up your PC to run from a compressed Windows image file (also known as Windows image file boot or WIMBoot) and included the option to restore factory...

If you want to install Windows 8.1 on MBR, you need to go to BIOS to enable Legacy boot mode and disable UEFI mode. Most of the UEFI -based hardware support Legacy mode. if your computer doesn't support it, you can use a third party software AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert MBR to GPT...

In disk management, you can only extend partition using the unallocated space next to its right side. You have to delete a contiguous partition, before you can merge partitions in Disk Management. therefore, My suggestion is to use a third party software, AOMEI Partition Assistant, both the...

How exactly do I find a way to transfer the extra space so it's sharing the same disk with my C: drive? I don't understand what exactly you want. since your C: drive is dynamic volune, you should be able to extend it with the unallocated space on disk 0. if disk management fails, try third...

To solve this problem, you need to convert GPT to MBR disk or enable Legacy boot mode in BIOS. By the way, you can use a freeware AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert disk between MBR and GPT without data loss. For people configuring their PCs for the first time all by themselves, an error...

For people configuring their PCs for the first time all by themselves, an error message like “Windows cannot be installed on this Disk” can be a big time problem. One, the message explains little about its cause and second, most of us don’t really have a lot of experience in setting up systems...

You cannot extend C: drive unless you convert to dynamic disk without data loss to create spanned volume. note that there is a risk that system may fail to boot after the conversion. Separated dynamic disk can be combined into a single dynamic volume, split data among several dynamic disks for...

I think you should use the third party software, which I have used it once in a while. it is a great product by the way.

Disk management only allows you to extend partition when there are unallocated space next to its right. I suggest you use AOMEI Partition Assistant, the standard(free) version will do this. You can follow the extend partition wizard to complete the process, which mostly won't even need you to...

I don't think you can only copy drivers and programs without OS. I suggest you clone system. Then all the drivers and programs installed on C : drive will come along with system clone.

clone a hard drive will delete all the data on the destination drive. You'd better clone all the partitions on the drive that clone disk.

you have to convert those disk to dynamic disk to create spanned volumes. if you use disk management, you'll lose all the data. I suggest you use a third party software.

f means fix., r means recover

UEFI is a boot mode applying to GPT disk while NTFS is a file system invented by Microsoft. You can use NTFS file system on GPT disk or MBR disk. Acronis 2015 Disk backup can be saved on a disk with a GPT partition

Thank you for the information. It seems the WD tool can change logical sector size from 4096 to 512. If I buy a 4k hard disk, and use the tool, then the 4k native disk becomes 512e disk. So I can use it to backup windows 7. Is that correct? this may be a dumb question, but please help me

I am considering buying a new hard drive, but I heard that 4k (advanced format) disk will not work with Windows backup. I have a desktop with window7 and a laptop with windows 8. I want to buy a new hard drive for both computers' backups. some said the WD tool will make 4k disk work with...

If the D drive and 350M drive next to C:drive don't have valuble data, you can delete them and extend C:drive with Windows Disk Management. If you don't want to delete these two partitions, you can use third party software to do this, The function Merge Partition of AOMEI Partition Assistant...

click start, enter "msconfig" press Enter. in the pop-up window, under Boot option, you can stop iTunes from launching when Windows starts