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Questions re: Expanding System Partition, Shrinking Windows Partition
Hello Everyone,
Hopefully I'm not duplicating a thread I haven't found. I'm running Windows Home v. 1803, Build 17134.829 on a Lenovo IdeaPad laptop. Windows Update failed to install the July CU (KB4507435) for v. 1803 with error code 0x800f0922 (possible cause: too-small system partition). This is the first time I've received this code so checked size of system partition and saw it is only 260 MB (screenshot follows):
This is the disk organization as provided by Lenovo; as you can see I have lots of free space but no unallocated space. If I need unallocated space to expand the system partition, I'll have to get it by shrinking the Windows partition. I have a few questions about this procedure:
1. Are there any special considerations for shrinking the Windows partition, e.g., defrag the disk first?
2. Must the unallocated space reside immediately next to the system partition to be considered contiguous? If shrinking the Windows partition places the unallocated space anywhere else, will I need a third-party disk management tool to enlarge the system partition?
I'm sure I'll need to resolve this before trying to update to v. 1903, which is now being offered, and I'll have to do the same to my husband's HP (don't want to mess up that one), so really need to have my ducks in a row before getting started.
Thanks in advance for your help.