Aug 21, 2020 · To extend a basic volume, it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system. You can extend a logical drive within contiguous free space in the extended partition that contains it. If you extend a logical drive beyond the free space available in the extended partition, the extended partition grows to contain the logical drive.

Oct 6, 2010 · In this screen you see the "Reserved Partition" of 100 MB. I recommend keeping this. Next, you have the options of creating a new partition in the unallocated space, extending the selected partition into the unallocated space, shrinking the selected partition, or deleting one or all existing partitions.

Mar 22, 2022 · The default partition layout for UEFI-based PCs is: a system partition, an MSR, a Windows partition, and a recovery tools partition. If you have more than one recovery partition (ex: Windows created a second one) or have an obsolete or no longer needed factory recovery partition, then you can delete the recovery partition to reclaim disk space.

Aug 21, 2020 · In Windows, you can delete a volume or partition on a disk, except for a system or boot volume or partition. When you delete a volume or partition on a disk, it will become unallocated space on the disk. You could then extend another volume/partition on the same disk into this unallocated space to add the unallocated space to the volume/partition.

Mar 16, 2024 · The result will be 830mb unallocated space on the right of the os partition then create a new ms recovery partition using the whole 830 mb unallocated space finally enable the recovery sequence reagentc /enable I have been doing this stuff for a long time. I normally use Aomei partition assistant and/or diskgenius, but no doubt others are ok.

Jan 19, 2021 · These are additional methods that can create a new recovery partition.: 1) Windows custom install 2) Windows upgrade using the upgrade assistant:

Apr 9, 2012 · There can be only one active partition per physical hard disk. If you have multiple hard disks installed on your computer, it's possible for each hard disk to have a partition set as active. However, the active partition on the first hard disk that your computer's BIOS detects is the one that will start the computer.

Jan 6, 2013 · I'm trying to resize my C: partition so that I can create a separate 160 GB partition, but all of the options on MiniTool Partition Wizard are greyed out. And Disk manager is reporting 40 GB of possible space to shrink even though there's 259 GB free. I've reinstalled Wizard, defragged, and nothing works.

Jan 5, 2021 · DISKPART> sel par 6 Partition 6 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 6 Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Hidden : Yes Required: No Attrib : 0000000000000000 Offset in Bytes: 120023154688 There is no volume associated with this partition. DISKPART> sel par 7 The specified partition is not valid.

Mar 3, 2024 · On the early Windows system, the recovery partition was the first one. As it couldn't expand to the right, nowadays it is after the C: partition. The first 450M partition was the recovery partition. As it needed more space, Windows shrinked the C: partition and created a new Recovery partition after C: (that is also small for today standards.