Move Windows 10 Recovery partition

PDMoulton

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 the other. What I want is a 450gb C: drive and a 1500gb 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 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 drive, shrink the C: drive and create a new drive.

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

Thanks

billsey

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.