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Partitioning C drive Bricked My PC
Machine: Acer Aspire Switch 11v SW5 173 648Z
Ok, I forgot you can't just partition C drive on a Windows 10 tablet with EFI partition and the newer boot system like yesteryear. I used Paragon HDM to partition 128gb ssd C drive into 40gb and 78gb partitions. No more boot-up. Only boot to Recovery/Trouble Shooting environment and nothing I tried fixed it. I spent several days researching and trying a ton of things including Command Prompt boot partiton and boot file fixes and nothing worked. So I just used MS Media Creation Tool to do a clean install of the new Window 10 (1703) and it auto fixed the boot partition and boot files. Soooooo...
I would like to do it again (partition 128gb ssd C drive into 40gb and 78gb partitions) but I would like to avoid crashing my Boot Party again. Can someone explain to me what happened to the boot when I partitioned the C drive and how to avoid that?
This is an interesting page:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions
This is a quote from the page:
"The recommended partition layout for Windows 10 does not include data partitions. However, if data partitions are required, they should be placed after the Windows RE partition. This allows future updates to Windows RE to grow the Windows RE partition by shrinking the Windows partition." Couldn't find anything about how not to jack the boot system.
Last edited by Master Blaster; 08 Apr 2017 at 19:28.