Today I installed Windows 10 over Windows 10 to repair Windows. Unlike my MBR machine which I did yesterday, I could not extend C as it was greyed out. Diskpart successfully deleted the smaller Recovery Partition, but after some research, I believe that partition needs to be on the right hand side of C. I would rather not use 3rd party tools if I can help it. I do have UFDs I can boot Linux to if that would help. Restored an image and here is Disk Management: What's the best approach here? Thanks.
Hi Brian, Sure: Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.4170] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 5e460d3a-e187-11ee-b808-fd53eed479f0 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
All OK. You can delete the 529 MB partition. You could slide the first few partitions if you like but I wouldn't bother. It's not much to add to the OS partition.
I use BootIt but you could use Gparted in Linux. You would need to slide ESP, MSR and Windows. Then resize Windows. Edit... A Gparted slide of the Windows partition can be VERY slow as sectors not is use are moved too. BootIt only moves sectors in use.
Do they need to be in that specific order? As you can see, the new Recovery partition is last, that is furtherest to the right in my screenshot above. I would consider Bootit, but since Win10 is going EOL before too long, I'm seriously considering wiping Windows at that point and installing Linux solo. I'm not sure I'd get the benefit.
Umm, I don't think so. I sure have never seen that published anywhere. Have you? If so, got a link? And just looking at my Disk Management, it is on the left - but I don't see how that matters. What matters is how the partition is designated in the tables.
Can you explain why the Extend link is grey after using Diskpart to remove the smaller, no longer needed, Recovery Partition? I'll get back to you. Thanks.
After deleting the 529 MB partition you will have 529 MB of Free Space in front of the ESP. Slide the ESP so there is no Free Space Before. Next, slide the MSR so there is no Free Space Before. Next, slide the Windows partition so there is no Free Space Before. Now you will have 529 MB of Free Space after the Windows partition. Resize the Windows partition 529 MB larger. Your system looks like an upgrade from Win8. Win8 had partitions in this order... RE ESP MSR Windows
No, never had Windows 8 on that machine. Maybe installing Win10 over Win10 done it that way? Please check PMs when you have the time. Thanks.
I don't know what you mean by "Extend link". Sorry. But, if I were to guess, I would say you are trying to do something you can't. You cannot, for example, extend a partition if the space you are trying to extend into is already allocated to another partition. That extra space needs to be freed up first.
After deleting old Recovery Partition, it was unallocated. Extend link in the right click context menu was grey.
I still don't know what Extend link means. Are you sure it says, "link" and not "volume" or partition or something like that? “Extend Volume” Option Grayed Out in Windows? Try These 5 Fixes (helpdeskgeek.com)
My bad. When you said "on the right hand side of C" before, I took that as meaning to the right side of that disk, that is, to the right of that 577mb partition in your screen shot above. Not "directly" to the right of C (and before the 577mb). Sorry. Did any of the fixes in that link help.
All good. Thanks. For some reason, one of my Firefox Extensions (CanvasBlocker) keeps stopping that page from loading properly, plus I'm also getting a message saying that this page is slowing Firefox down. I'm in contact with @Brian K by PM at the moment.
My thanks goes to Brian. You've helped me multiple times and have always come through for me. Thank you, @Brian K !
One of the biggest problems with providing and receiving help via PMs is no one else benefits and that defeats the purpose and entire concept of "forums" - an "open" venue where EVERYONE can participate, share and learn! This is why seeking and providing help via PMs is actually against the rules at many forums. I am glad Brian was able to help and you got your issue resolved, but how about sharing the solution so others here, and future readers seeking a solution to the same issue, can learn from your experiences too?
Recently I asked for help by PM to three members here and if they were willing to help then hold on until I opened a public thread here for the very same reasons you wrote @Bill_Bright . So I fully agree with you, in this case.
OK, I downloaded a trial of BootIt, created a bootable UFD, booted to that UFD, used that to delete the smaller Recovery Partition, slide each of the remaining partitions to the left, then extended C to use up the newly created unallocated free space.
Detailed instructions for partitioning. Download BootIt UEFI trial from here... https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-uefi/ Unzip double click makedisk.exe PC Platform (UEFI) BootIt UEFI Accept Image for UEFI ticked Default video 1024 x 768 - 16M colors Device options... ignore Global geometry.. put a tick in Align partitions on 1 MiB boundaries Additional bootit.ini options... ignore Select the drive letter of your UFD Ignore Layout and Geometry Finish Boot the UFD Don't choose the Install option Maintenance Now you see the BootIt desktop click Partition Work In the Drives field, click the drop down arrow to select your boot drive Partitions are visible Select the RE 529 MiB partition click Delete (on the right) Yes Select the ESP 100 MiB partition click Slide (on the right) select the Free Space Before field and type 0 leave the tick in Data Only (and each time you do this) OK, Continue, Close Now the ESP should be at the top with 529 MiB of Free Space after it Select the Microsoft reserved partition Slide Make the Free Space Before 0 (no tick for data only with a MSR slide) OK, Continue, Close Select the Windows partition Slide Make the Free Space Before 0 OK, Continue, Close Select the Windows partition Resize (on the right) OK Select the New Size field and type in the Max Size number OK, Continue, Close Click Close on the Work with Partitions window click Reboot (bottom right) remove the UFD
