Windows 10: adjusting windows 10 partition

Hi,


I am testing backup assist at the moment and encounter some issue regarding windows partition.


I install fresh windows 10 on 2 different machines

- older machine with no UEFI

- laptop with UEFI.


I notice when I install windows on older machine, it creates 2 partitions

- System partition about 549 MB

- Primary partition for the rest of the hard disk


on UEFI machine windows installation create 4 partitions

- Recovery Partition about 499 MB

- System partition about 100 MB

- Reserved partition about 16 MB

- Primary partition for the rest of the hard disk


Then I install backup assist backup software.

I can perform full backup and subsequent backup without any issue.


Then I do bare metal recovery and ask them to recreate partition and reformat the hard disk, and it restore the pc without any issue.


Except when I run backup assist to do a full backup and it failed, and give the following error message.

A volume shadow copy service operation error has occurred, Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data


I spoke with backup assist support from what they told me is due to partition size need to be minimum 500MB for shadow copy to work. and refer me to this URL

https://social.technet.microsoft.co...s-version-of-windowsquot?forum=w7itprogeneral





My question is during windows fresh installation, there is only 1 button to create partition New partition and windows create all the system, reserve, etc... partition automatically for UEFI machine. I can only specify the size for primary partition only. if I need to make Recovery partition to say 549 MB how do I do that?


I appreciated if anyone can point me on how to adjust/create manually partition size during windows installation.



NB: I know there is windows backup, I am testing backup assist since I am testing backup solutions for the server as well and backup assist has facility to do restore exchange database at mailbox level where standard window server backup doesn't provide that solutions.


Thank you.


Regards

- Haris -

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10

no, you can't go back..
I suggest creating a backup image of your os drive