Move Windows 10 Recovery partition

PDMoulton
PDMoulton Member Posts: 3 New User
edited February 2024 in 2018 Archives

I have a new Aspire TC-780 that has the recovery partition right in the middle of a 2tb disk, which means I have a 950gb C: drive one side and a 950gb D: the other. What I want is a 450gb C: drive and a 1500gb D: drive with the recovery drive at then end of the disk.

The current recovery drive has the necessary Winre.wim and System Information files/folders by the looks of it.

Is it a simple case of shrinking current D: drive by 10gb, creating a new 10gb partition using diskpart, mounting the existing recovery drive and new partition, performing an powersehll xcopy, robocopy or move from the existing recovery drive to the new partition (will xcopy/move/robocopy take across the necessary boot/systems/hidden files/folders?) 

Then delete the original recovery partition and D: drive, shrink the C: drive and create a new D: drive.

Or is this to simple an approach/am I missing something.

Thanks

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,014 Trailblazer
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    It's not quite that simple, since Windows does some magic when it creates the recovery partition. If you don't have anything on the D partition you could delete it, move the recovery to the end of the disk, shrink the C and then recreate the D. I'm not sure if the recovery move is feasible in Disk Manager, but there are plenty of third party utilities that will do it.
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  • JordanB
    JordanB ACE Posts: 3,729 Pathfinder
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    You should create a USB recovery drive, so you don't have to worry..
    You should create a USB recovery drive before you start tinkering.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-weclZqWX4
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,014 Trailblazer
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     I have used Partition Magic in the past, though I don't have a preference. Jordan's suggestion is a very good one. Much better to be able to get back if you muck something up. :)
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  • PDMoulton
    PDMoulton Member Posts: 3 New User
    Sorry the emojis should be D (colon) drive
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,014 Trailblazer
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    It's not quite that simple, since Windows does some magic when it creates the recovery partition. If you don't have anything on the D partition you could delete it, move the recovery to the end of the disk, shrink the C and then recreate the D. I'm not sure if the recovery move is feasible in Disk Manager, but there are plenty of third party utilities that will do it.
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • PDMoulton
    PDMoulton Member Posts: 3 New User
    Thank you for your response, very helpful - When you say "3rd party utilities" do you mean something like https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html - Never used one before - or is there you recommend. Many thanks
  • JordanB
    JordanB ACE Posts: 3,729 Pathfinder
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    You should create a USB recovery drive, so you don't have to worry..
    You should create a USB recovery drive before you start tinkering.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-weclZqWX4
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,014 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓
     I have used Partition Magic in the past, though I don't have a preference. Jordan's suggestion is a very good one. Much better to be able to get back if you muck something up. :)
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.

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