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Most partition managers, you would use "resize" not extend
What do you think about this? I restore this partition with an image backup, but first delete all partitions with Macrium, then only only replace with the image partitions I want?
If you have a MR rescue USB and full MR image of this drive, what you propose is literally risk free and should work out fine.
If after your reorder the partitions by dragging them from the backup image to your drive, the PC doesn't boot, try the MR USB repair boot problems option.
Worst case, you restore the drive backup image.
That is the clever solution.
When restoring (drag and drop from source to target), resize the partitions
- EFI - Fat32 - 100M
- MSR - RAW -16M
- C: - NTFS - 60G or bigger
- Data - NTFS
After everything is running with the new layout you can create a WinRE (recovery) by running reagentc /enable
After struggling and failing to get the job done from a variety of stumbling blocks using both Mini Tool Partition Wizard and Diskgenius (good learning exercise, nonetheless), I gave my Macrium idea a try.
Worked like a charm! Almost too easy.
I deleted all target partitions except for the 337mb EFI System partition , which was different in size than the replacement. I didn't know if that was significant, but there was really no risk. If it didn't work, I could just restore the image again and start over. What would we do without Macrium?
So actually the only thing replaced was C:\.
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After that, what was not possible with MIni & Diskgenius, a simple Disk Management C:\ extend volume finished the job
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Is that really necessary?
Last edited by kitpzyxmsir; 15 Jan 2022 at 19:03.
Ewww, you have a RAW G: partition - 781 GB? I said.... um or thought 99.9% your Macrium plan would work
I like/have overprovisioning too, but it says unallocated, not RAW and doesn't say "Healthy..." and not so huge. Maybe OP has an explanation.