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Modify Existing Partitions
I am working on a new Asus X556U laptop with Windows 10 Home.
Asus have already pre-installed the partitions (in this order) which are as follows:
- 260 MB (I think this is the equivalent of System Reserved in Windows 7)
- 744.45 GB / C drive / Operating System
- 499 MB / Recovery partition
- 1117.81 GB / D drive / Data
Now what I would like to do is shrink the C drive partition to say 200-250 GB max and then add the remainder of the free space to the D drive. The problem that I can see is that this will not happen automatically as the HDD is partitioned as above in this particular order and the recovery partition is located between the C and D drives.
I am quite new to Asus and don't know too much about their laptops. The other option would be to copy the recovery folder temporarily to the C drive or externally (if possible), shrink the C drive to 250 GB and format both the recovery partition and D drive. This would therefore add the remainder of the C drive to create empty space. I could then create a new partition of 499 MB for the recovery partition and a new partition for data in the D drive.
I don't know if this would work. Has anyone done this with ASUS laptops before? I am afraid of messing up the recovery partition as I think I may need it again.