Windows 10: How to increase EFI and Recovery partitions size using only Microsoft tools?

Hello,I need to be able to increase size of EFI and Recovery partitions because there is not enough free space on them to allow creating System Image backup on external disk I keep getting error message "there is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location". I am not satisfied with answers on the Internet suggesting to use a paid, 3rd party solutions to do that. I don't believe that Microsoft does not have their own tools to resize system created partitions. Please kindly suggest how to resize those partitions using Microsoft tools only or, alternatively, h

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how to increase size of EFI system partition in win 10 pro. without lost data.

unable to upgrade to win 10 1703, update failed every time. size of EFI partition is 99MB. someone advise increase size to min. 300 MB in order successful installation on update.

 

Increasing Partition Size

You can't remove unallocated space, because it is, by definition, unallocated. Do what LX07 and Cereberus are suggesting and get the free Minitool. Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free You will be able to shrink "D" and expand "C" easily and safely. Download and install it, and someone here will walk you thru the few simple steps.

 

How to install Win10 when the Recovery & EFI partitions were deleted?

There are a couple of issues with the above sequence. First, @drpeppercan stated that they already deleted the EFI system and recovery partition. So why is there a select part 1 and delete part override in the command sequence? What is being deleted? The Microsoft System Reserved partition? Hopefully there is an MSR partition there because if partition 1 is the Windows OS partition, then you just deleted Windows. And if there is an MSR partition there, why delete it?

Second, without a size specified when creating the EFI System Partition, it is just going to fill all available free space at the beginning of the drive. If there was a recovery partition, EFI System Partition and MSR partition, that free space is likely to be 600 MB is size, so you just created a 600 MB EFI System Partition that only needs to be 100 MB in size.

Without seeing the layout of the disk with: select disk 0, detail disk, list part you can't really suggest an accurate list of commands to rebuild the EFI system partition. It's only guessing.