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The capability to convert to GPT during recovery is also available in my backup tool - Acronis True Image. However, I'm worried that whatever problem I'm running into may also cause problems for those utilities. (After all, Partition Wizard should be able to do the reallocation that MBR2GTP could not. Since both fail I think I may have a deeper problem.
I hadn't thought of doing a Windows in-place repair.
I would personally leave it like it is. All my computers are MBR by choice and I would not have it any other way.
Uh. Never mind. Something in the past few hours worked. Disk Manager now showed shrink space and MBR2GPT finally worked. I have no idea what I did, but something succeeded. <sheesh>
Glad to see the problem sorted.
Post #7 has steps for confirmation.
You might want to go back and look at the partitions in MiniTool Partition Wizard - you probably have some wasted space on the drive now you can expand the C: partition into.
I was thinking about that. Disk Management does not show anything, but I think Partition Wizard must have done something since it was all I used outside of Disk management. It's sort of odd it didn't help right away, but maybe I needed an extra reboot for some reason.
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Nope. No extra partition created by Partition Wizard. There's the 500MB System Reserved partition, the 237.9 Windows partition, and the 100MB EFI partition created by MBR2GPT. Too bad I didn't note what the total allocated space was before I started this exercise. I think that the space left over when Partition Wizard shrinks a partition shows as unallocated, but maybe it simply disappears.
By the way, this drive is a 256GB SSD. The total allocated space of 238.5 is about 93% of the stated capacity - a bit more than I would have expected for an SSD. If any space disappeared, it wasn't much.
You probably don't need the 500MB system reserved partition.