Windows 10: Trying to reorder my disk C - Reallocate space and recovery partitions

Hi community, I'm here because I have a disk space problem I can't solve and I'd like to get some help. My C disk, a solid-state drive, has 5 partitions, the first one being an EFI Partition, second one as Windows booting and primary partition, third one as a recovery partition, fourth as free space and a new recovery partition at the end. The way things are, I can't assign the free space to extend the primary partition, and after some basic research I found out that because of the way partitions are ordered, that is not possible unless I delete the partitions in between free disk space and the primary one. Is that right?

My questions are:

- Is it safe to delete both recovery partitions and reassign the remaining free disk space to the primary partition?

- How do I delete the recovery partitions?

- After that being done, is it possible to reassign the remaining disk space?


I hope you can tell me how to proceed, I don't have a lot of disk space and 80GB could really help me. Thanks in advance!

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Creating Unallocated Space at End of Disk (Partitioning)

Hi,

I have a 250 GB SSD that I just installed Windows 10 version 2004 build 19041.329 on. I'd like to create a new, 20 GB partition of unallocated space at the end of this drive. However, it appears that during installation, the Windows 10 setup created a 500 MB recovery partition at the end of the C: partition. I'm familiar with this recovery partition (i.e. I know what it does), but I'd like to not have it at the end of the disk; instead, I'd like to have some unallocated space at the end of the disk.

The current order of the partitions is:

1. EFI
2. C:
3. Recovery

I downloaded and installed GParted, and used it to create a 20 GB unallocated space by shrinking the C: partition. However, this unallocated space gets created immediately after C:, and not at the end of the disk, as I need it to be. In other words, the 500 MB recovery partition is getting in the way! I'd like to reorder the partitions.

I thought to use GParted to moved the 20 GB unallocated space to the end of the disk, but when I did that, GParted raised a warning message about moving system partitions that could render Windows unable to boot. Daunted, I canceled that operation and then removed the 20 GB unallocated space. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a screenshot of the exact warning message. Although now I'm thinking that I didn't even touch the EFI boot partition, only the recovery partition. Would it be safe to move the recovery partition to before C: and not after?

Here's a screenshot showing my current partition order:





The red arrows show one possible solution: I could swap the order of the C: partition and the recovery partition. Then, when I shrink C: and create my 20 GB unallocated space, that unallocated space will, by default, get created behind C:. Is it safe to swap the order of C: and recovery?

Another solution is to create the 20 GB unallocated space (which is straightfoward), but then move it to the end of the drive. So I'd essentially have the order become:

1. EFI
2. C:
3. Recovery
4. 20 GB Unallocated

Is it safe to have unallocated space after the recovery partition like this?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

reallocation of disk space

I am trying to install Windows 10 update. It gives me an error that my D recovery disk is not big enough. I do not know how to add more space to D. There is plenty of space on C. How do I move space from C drive to D drive.

 

Unallocated Space to C Drive

Thanks