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Partitioning Woes
Hi Folks...
I'm trying to partition a 1 TB drive on my new HP Pavilion 17z, and discovered that Win10 Home set Partition D for Recovery before the computer arrived.
I'd like to:
1. CHANGE D to R, but Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management won't let me do that -- so how do I accomplish this?
2. THEN shrink C to about 250 GB which I'll only use for programs, fonts, software and normal file processing (no big graphics, movies, or animation, and no docs, no publications, not data), but Win10 says I can't shrink below 463.93 GB. My goal here is to get as much space as possible on a new partition to store backup files from two desktops and my wife's laptop.
I vaguely recall from another thread a few years back that some keen advisors on this forum discussed free third-party software that was pretty reliable for all sorts of partition juggling and renaming, including the ability to move protected files so more space would be usable for shrinking. But my dumb brain can't recall the name of that software or where to get it.
Am I remembering correctly, or am I just in a fog?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as setting up this laptop is vexing to say the least.
Thanks.