Windows 10: Can partitions within Disk0 be rearranged Windows

Hi Team,

i have an issue where i have deployed an FFU image onto a machine that consists of a 1TB HD. the image has loaded onto the machine but when i go into disk manager i can see there is still 600+GB of unallocated space. i can not extent the C: Drive partition as there is a recovery partition in between C; drive partition and unallocated partition.


The FFU image was captured from a reference machine that consisted of a 256GB hard drive.


Can i rearrange the partition son the reference machine so that the C: Drive partition sits at the end?

Can the recovery partition be delete and if yes will this cause any issues?

If the recovery partition is deleted can this then be added back?


Please let me know if this is possible?

:)

 

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

 

Can DISKPART be used to make Disk1 active system partition and take Disk0 offline when both have System Reserved partition?

I have added a second SSD to my Windows 7 x64 system because DISK0 was acting weirdly. (SMART BIOS said it was "bad" but the SSD manufacturer's disk utility said it was "healthy").

I made a system image of DISK0 and restored that system image onto DISK1. Now DISK0 and DISK1 both have System Reserved partitions. Note that there is also a 2TB "standard" HD with several NTFS volumes which is not shown here:





With DISKPART, is it possible to take Disk0 offline, make Disk1 the active system partition, and reassign drive C: to the 465GB NTFS partition now labeled as disk "I:" ? Perhaps not in that order? If so, could you please give the commands in their proper
order?

The partitions on Disk1 are "MBR".

Thanks

 

Installing Windows Vista/7 on a GUID Partition Table

I've never tried multiple partitions so this is a shot in the dark...

At step #10, I would try setting the size parameter (it is in mebibytes) to how large you want the partition windows is installed on to be, then go ahead and install windows. This will leave the rest of the drive raw instead of consuming it into the OS partition (C drive). Once you successfully boot into Windows, you should be able to use Computer Management -> Disk Management to create partitions in the raw space.


If you really wanted to do it with diskpart before Windows is installed, you basically repeat the following lines making sure to specify a size if you don't want it to consume all remaining space:

• create partition primary size=size in mebibytes here
• format quick fs=ntfs label="appropriate name here"
• assign letter=C thru Z here

Obviously, you can use quick formatting or leave it out for full format. Leave off the size parameter when you reach the final partition that should consume all the remaining space. Also remember that the order you do this in goes from the outside of the disk (where it is fastest) to the inside of the disk (where it is slowest). Because of this, it is recommended to put EFI (e.g. size=300), then MSR (e.g. size=300), then Windows (e.g. size=30000), then Applications (e.g. size=70000), then Storage (e.g. no size parameter).

If I'm right, the above example would look like this:

• diskpart
• list disk
• select disk <id>
• online disk
• attributes disk clear readonly
• clean
• convert gpt
  
• create partition efi size=300
  
• create partition msr size=300
  
• create partition primary size=30000
• format fs=ntfs label="Windows"
• assign letter=C
  
• create partition primary size=70000
• format fs=ntfs label="Applications"
• assign letter=D
  
• create partition primary
• format fs=ntfs label="Storage"
• assign letter=E
• exit