Windows 10: [SOLVED] Windows 10 Cloning question - moving Recovery Partition?

Hi all - just upgraded my PC by cloning my old 160GB SATA HDD to a new 250GB SATA SSD drive.

All is fine and I can boot into Windows and all works perfectly (AND SO MUCH FASTER!!!)

My issue is this. Windows has a Recovery Partition. I want to expand the OS partition of my drive to use the new space my larger 250GB drive entails, but the Recovery Partition is smack dab in the middle of the new 250GB SSD now because of the clone (it was at the end of the drive on the 160GB HDD).

If I use a program like GParted or another parition manager to MOVE the Recovery Partition to the end of the drive so I can use the new space, is that going to mess up WIndows and will the Recovery partition still work as it always had, despite the move?

Thanks in advance!

:)

 

Multiple Large Recovery Partitions

I am going through and cleaning out my hard drives and organizing them and when I cloned my boot drive I noticed that there are 4 partitions. 462 MB System Reserve (G, 445.31 GB Sandisk Ultra II (C, 486 MB Recovery Partition, and 912 MB Recovery Partition.
I know I don't need all of those recovery partitions, and they really don't hurt anything but when I clone the drive of course they are cloned as well and then there ends up being 5+ partitions on the drive im cloning to which defeats the purpose of organizing.
How can I tell which partition I can remove and which one is the actual recovery partition? im running Win10 64-bit

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Cloning HDD to SSD KEEPS FAILING

What are you using to perform the clone? Could you try some alternative steps described at the the following link?

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clone-move-win...

 

That will work no problem note down sizes positions firtsso you can role back if needed allways have a role back option

 

OK - moved the Recovery Partition to the end of the disk with GParted on a Linux Live CD. Then used the Windows Partition Manager on boot of Win10 to extend the partition...all seems well!

That being said, is there now anything I have to do to tell Windows where the Recovery Partition was moved to...?

 

Open Admin command and run: reagentc /info
if it's enabled then you're OK. If disabled, try: reagentc /enable

If unable to enable then post a screen shot of disk management:
Screenshot - Take in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Ran both commands - stated as disabled, second command to enable fails and says 'Image Not Found'

 

Your recovery partition is partition two, so try this command first... Code: reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition2\Recovery\WindowsRE[/quote] Then try reagentc /enable again.

 

Thank you! That seemed to do the trick! *Smile