Extend Partition size on Lenovo S206 running Win 10 to create backup

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a laptop for my girlfriend. It's a Lenovo S206. The laptop has a nice little 'one touch' button that lets you automatically restore the laptop to any previous point with a clean re-install. Worked great as win 8 but now it's updated to Win 10 I want to create a new point while it's 'clean' as she's going overseas, just so she can sort it herself if it all goes wrong!

Only problem is, pressing one-touch button and asking it to create the backup, it says it needs 39.9gb of space, and only 25gb is available.

Looking at the Disk Management, currently the hard drive is as follows:

|| 1000MB healthy (recovery partition) || 260mb Healthy (EFI System Partition || 1000mb healthy (OEM Partition) || 250.31GB NTFS Healthy ( Windows8_OS (C:) Boot, Page File, Crash Dump) || 462MB Healthy (Recovery Partition) || 25GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition LENOVO (D:) ) || 20GB Healthy (Recovery Partition) ||

Free spaces are 1000mb, 260mb, 1000mb, 202.92GB, 462mb, 23.83GB, 20GB

First thing - why so many little drives, with no used data?
Second thing - I assumed that D: (LENOVO) was the drive that the one-touch used - I seem to remember when I clean restored to factory (Win 8) the address was in D: - is that correct? it only seems to have a few mb on it
Thirdly - should I just be extending that drive to make it big enough, if so how? I tried shrinking C but you can't then extend D (it's not 'next' to it)

Any help much appreciated!!!

Thanks Axeo, lets give that a go...

axe0 said:

With each upgrade a new recovery partition is added, this partition is used whenever you cannot boot into Windows succesfully after 3 tries. The EFI partition is basically required for the boot, with GPT format and no EFI partition the system will not boot.
I'm a bit worried about the 20GB recovery partition, was this partition present before upgrading?


I'm not sure what you mean with 'the address' exactly?


You can only extend a partition if the unallocated space is directly on the right side, so if you were trying to extend the C partition you would have to delete the recovery partition between partition C and D.

Honest answer... I was stupid / stressed / rushing, didn't check prior to update all partitions, so I don't know if the 20gb was there or not!

Address - just meant which drive it was referring to as the location for the backup

The lack of ability to expand is now explained though, thank you - I've never tried doing it with disk management before (as I say... stupid / stressed / rushing!)

topgundcp said:

NOTE: Actually, there's an extra partition MSR (Microsoft reserved partition) which is not shown in Disk Management. Need to use diskpart to see it.

@axe0

The Windows installed using GPT partition scheme. Normal is 450MB for GPT, 500MB for MBR.
However, this layout is customized by Lenovo and is not standard.

Really useful seeing it laid out, thank you very much!