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@Mike100
The first link is like the MS directions, but better explained. They remove the Recovery partition and create another one. But removing it w/o saving its contents elsewhere, like ReAgentC /disable does, means losing its contents. The new partition is created empty and will remain empty unless you have done ReAgentC /disable before and do ReAgentC /enable after. They have to do this (afaik) because in diskpart you cannot move a partition's first sector, what would be needed to take free space from a previous partition (C: in the case those directions can work).
The second link shows a different case, with unallocated space AFTER the Recovery partition (in the previous case, the unallocated space created by the shrink command applied to C: is BEFORE). In this case, you don't have to move the first sector and even diskpart would work, with its command extend. Idk if Aomei free can move a partition (move a partition = moving its first sector). If so, maybe there's another Aomei page. Some other free utilities can for sure.
I've seen two methods to move a partition, with or without variating its size or its last sector (background: moving files physically -to other sectors- takes significant time, while leaving them where they are does only require to vary the file tables, MFT etc, that is much quicker):
1) Leave as many of the files as possible in their current physical position. If the new partition does only "conquer" new space and the files can be in any place inside it, no file would need to be moved physically.
2) Preserve all files' relative distance to the beginning, what implies moving all the files. This is a lot slower, but such preserving is sometimes needed, or either the partition utility is done so for simplicity.
In any of the cases, the partition move conserves the files and no ReAgentC /disable - ReAgentC /enable is needed. If the utility does also apply correctly methods 1) and 2), the partition will also conserve its "added functionality" (compared to any "data partition", whose files can be anywhere and the only important thing is preserving them all).