Windows 10: How to merge the Health (Recovery Partition) in Windows 10

Previously, I used AOMEI Partition Assistant without any issue, but now after I delete the 450 MB Health (Recovery Partition) & merge with my C: drive, this error popped out; (I'm unable to merge it anymore)

"The version of your system is equal or higher than 1703. We suggest you don't resize/move system partition, which may cause system boot failure. We suggest create a Windows PE bootable media and rezise/move system partition with it."

Any suggestion to merge the partition? Thanks & greatly appreciated. FYI, I tried various application also not working.

There's a \\?\Volume{ff855cc7-980a-44a3-aa46-1eed8d8c8b8c}\ located on Optimize Drives.
(The 450 MB Health Recovery Partition)

P.S. Windows 10 Pro x64 Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.19)



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Merge Partitions and re-install

Hello

I have just bought a new Windows 10 laptop which came with a 500gb SSD drive partitioned as follows;

EFI / OS Drive / recovery / Data

There is no DVD drive and hence no recovery or OS / driver disks.

I want to merge the OS drive with the data drive. Third party partition software will do this but wants to merge the recovery partition with it....no good if ultimately the OS drive fails?

I have been told to reinstall a full version of Windows 10 to solve this problem, so I have to download Windows 10 using microsoft's media creation tool. I have also been advised to first clone my system onto an external drive.

How do I make a clone?

Do I have to merge the partitions before I reinstall? Do I then format the resulting One drive?

How do I preserve the EFI partition, or will a re-install re-create this?

Will a re-install re-create another recovery partition?

Does the Windows 10 re-install include all the necessary drivers?

 

Extra recovery partition after Windows 10 1709 update

Recovery Partition After Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8

Last year, I used the above freeware to delete an OEM recovery partition to the left of partition C: and merged them without data loss.

 

Can you post a screenshot of your partitions so we can see

 

Yup, please kindly find the attachment that I uploaded.

 

AOMEI Partition Assistant 6.6 fixed the issue.

By the way, I'm using AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 6.6.