Extend volume blocked by recovery partition in Windows 10
Once I saw that one of the test virtual machines was running out of free space on the system C: drive. I increased the disk size in the virtual machine settings and switched to guest OS (Windows 10) to extend the system partition size using unallocated space. When I opened the Disk Management Console (diskmgmt.msc), I noticed that there were two recovery partitions on the drive. And the unallocated space appeared after the second recovery partition (labeled Windows RE). For some reason, the recovery partition is located after the primary partition (C:) and does not allow extending the primary volume using unallocated space.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the “Extend Volume” button is inactive (gray). You can extend the partition using Windows built-in tools if it has unallocated space to its right (Windows 10 cannot extend primary partition to the right into unallocated space). In my case, I cannot extend C: drive because it is blocked by recovery partition (Windows RE). So, before extending the size of the system partition, I will need to delete the recovery partition.
Extend the system drive but the recovery partition is in the way.
I just replaced my system disk with a larger disk. This worked fine, but I can't extend the partition anymore because the free space is not contiguous. I have System Reserved (350 MB), C-Drive/healthy/boot/etc (297 GB), Recovery Partition (450 MB), Unallocated (167 GB). So when I right-click on C-Drive, the partition extension is grayed out. I assume it's because the unallocated space is not contiguous.
I'm using Windows 10. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this and create a single system drive?
Windows 10: Cannot extend C drive because recovery partition is in front of Windows (C:)
Unable to extend system drive due to recovery partition
Due to popular cost-cutting strategies, you may need to assign smaller system drive partitions to your virtual machines. Once the free space on your system drive is low, you can easily add additional free disk space for that system. Once done, the system drive can be extended in just a few clicks using the Disk Management tool.
Unfortunately, in some cases, you cannot extend the system drive due to the recovery partition, as shown in the image below.
As you can see, the newly added free disk space was added after the recovery partition. In a situation like this, you will not be able to extend your system partition using Disk Management tool. So, in order to solve this problem, we can use Macrorit Partition Expert.
For this we can download and use the portable edition of Macrorit Partition Expert tool.
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Unable to extend C drive because of recovery partition
/"I just replaced my system disk with a larger disk. It worked fine, but I can't extend the partition anymore because the free space is contiguous. I have a System Reserved (350 MB), C-Drive /healthy/boot/ etc (297 GB), recovery partition (450 MB), unallocated (167 GB) So when I right click on the C drive, the partition extension is grayed out. guess it's because the unallocated space is not contiguous. /10 Does anyone have any idea how to fix this and create a single system drive?
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