I'm falling short of words to thank you. Many instructors have asked to delete the recovery file through administrator mode in command prompt but it could have ended with problems while booting. This thing did work for me. Thank You
Perfectly detailed and concise video. Made it very easy to follow along with confidence. Might have been worth advising a backup before getting into anything, but otherwise 100% 👍
@eKiwi, thank you so much for taking the time to make this video tutorial, I really appreciate how easy you made this look. I had 11Gbs of unallocated space on my Samsung SSD which was originally used for 'Over Provisioning' but for some reason Samsung Magician had greyed out the ability to clear the OP, hence therefore why I was looking for other solutions. I had previously read about the MiniTool Partition Wizard but their website doesn't make it very clear how to use it. Your video on the other hand was clear, concise and to the point. 👍I suppose I should also thank the makers of this mini tool also, without this utility I would be scratching my head for answers. Thank you 👍
Genius 😁😁👌👌😎😎 yep through shear grit, sweat & a little alcohol I read and researched this far, cloned 240GB SSD[GPT] to 480GB SSD[GPT]using macrium reflect[free] because other software only did MBR in free version. Then got confused with Disk Manger and the cloned drive size, albeit I was anticipating this outcome from past experience. I found a thread in a random forum recommending minitool, facing the minitool GUI I clicked resize/move and hit the wall of how to move the RE partition, of course the whole bar was a visual representation of the actual drive😒😒 I do think after a spot of lunch I would of got there in the end, but hey you saved me about 3 hours of frustration, much appreciated. I nearly went down the command line rabbit hole, delete recovery partition. I hope you make more truly helpful vids - Subscribed. Peace.
I can't believe blackshark2655 called you very old. I'm 71 so you still look like a adolescent to me. Also your video is awesome! Thank you for the help.
Thanks man, it really helped a lot to me. ❤️ I was unable to extend my C drive size due recovery partition that was between C drive and Unlocated space and I searched a lot of videos on youtube but none of them worked except you. I salute to you for your efforts ♥️
Omg thanks so much! I’m struggling with the program because it’s acting dumb. But I’ve been trying to do this process for ages on my moms laptop and I was losing my mind this was an absolute lifesaver
Ohhhh myyy I was searching for answers to do this and youre the only vid that's helped me and actually work. . .Simple and concise💯 and you even provided the link. I can't thank you enough sir!❤
Sir THANK YOU SO MUCH I've been trying from past 2 hours but can't figure how to do this but only u helped me thanks a lot because of uni have now more space on windows c: You earned a subscriber 🎉
thank you!! at first I formatted the space that was unallocated and could not move anything, then realized to move partitions you need unallocated space before or after, re-deleted the partition to make it unallocated and it worked !!
Yes. Thank you. When I initially partitioned my drive, I set aside a partition for when I would eventually install Linux for a dual-boot system. This partition turned into a problem and the Linux installer couldn't handle it either.
OMG Sir Thank You So much, i have been looking for this, before i delete the recovery partition and its goes wrong and i need to flash the disk C again, now i can simple move the recovery partition without delete them and make damages to my disk C. Thanks you so much 🙏🙏🙏😍
Really great video! Walking through the process before doing it is what I found to be most helpful. I restored an Acronis disk image onto a larger target disk but the recovery partition is in between the unallocated free space, not allowing me to extend the disk. I'm going to use your process to (hopefully) resolve my dilemma. Thank you for sharing! This is really helpful!
Absolutely a life saver. Thank you so much for this video. Worked for me after I cloned my boot drive externally and found my recovery partition to the right of my c drive tht needed expanded with unallocated space.
im so thankfull to you sir so much. thank you for making this video good sir. i just follow all your steps and now my laptop is all set i manage to extend the partition on my partition C where my windows at. Im so very thankfull to you good sir. my problem now has been solve.
1) Is there any benefit to moving the recovery partition to the left of the main partition next to the other system partition ? 2) If you partitioned the drive into C: and D:, should they both have their own recovery partition ? ( Intuitively, I think that yes, they should.)
I did the same thing using gparted in Linux, which incidentally also successfully cloned my drive in the first instance using the dd command (only one line required in terminal!). I tried cloning and resizing at the same time firstly with Macirum and that failed to boot. Using a linux live USB seems the easiest way for a lot of things.
Great video ! Just to give my feedback, during the reboot process the computer gave me two blue sceens of death before starting the partitioning process from the wizzard, but it was fine after that. And to those asking whether or not the recovery mode still works after moving the winRE partition, it seems to be working fine for me. Thanks !
Thank you so much for this video!! Perfect presentation. I can't thank you enough. Super simple after seeing your instructions. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
What if you would prefer to have your recovery partition before the system partition? This would allow you to expand the system partition easier if you need to do it again later.
Sounds risky to me, I would suspect that Windows might have trouble booting after that. But you are right, it would be better is this partition was in front.
You are a God for me and for my PC. I am trying to fix this problem from one or two months and suddenly I seen your videos you are very old but you are helping others by guiding them you are in level of God for me.
Wish I would have found this BEFORE I deleted the recovery partitions from my new drive to get to that unallocated space. I still have them on my old drive...but haven't had any success yet in reinstalling those old recovery partitions onto my new drive yet. Computer acts like it is trying to boot from the old drive plugged in via a hard drive enclosure when I try. Great software you have though. Best of success with it.
Hello Andy/Daniel, Thanks for making such Great, simple and easily understandable video. Keep it up, you saved a lot of time of people to explore. God bless you,
@@ekiwi-blog-english thanks for the reply. currently having problem merging my new disk(1) to my main (disk 0) due to the recovery partition in between them.
When I did this on my 11th gen i7 laptop, my recovery partion then changed from NTFS to RAW and I lost ability to use reset/recovery. It's now and empty 933mb volume
Evening sir,whenever I try to move the recovery partition,in that menu where you can move the yellow part to the white part,I don't have the white part.It's all just yellow and I can't move it.Do you know what I can do to fix that?
you need to have Unallocated space to be able to move the partition. I had the same issue. I had two partitions one with the old SSD capacity 256GB and other with 600gb. I deleted the 600gb partitions that I had created before and then I was able to move the Recovery partition.
after doing this, I am getting a black screen that windows couldn't launch properly and then it takes me back to half partition with healthy partition sticking to it
I never had to try this. The partition itself is not damaged, but I saw another video here on TH-cam where it was mentioned, that the partition might not be found anymore by Windows. There where also instructions how to fix this in Windows.
I did this and restarted win 11 and now the the Healthy (Recovery Partition) is at the end just like in your video but it doesn't say Healthy (Recovery Partition) any more. It just shows the size as 581 MB. Is this a problem?
Instead of healthy, is there another status message shown or is it just blank? Here is an overview of the states: www.prajwaldesai.com/hard-disk-volume-status/
It doesn't work anymore - I followed the instructions, but it tells me that it couldn't be applied, because the drive is active, and I would need to reboot for the program to carry out the job. And when I did, it failed, and didn't do the job at all....
I have a new video that covers that part: th-cam.com/video/dg7D0FbZbXE/w-d-xo.html This uses RescueZilla to do the job. The part with the recovery partition is covered at the end.
@@ekiwi-blog-english the free one, I really don't know who will go for the pro, the free is good enough for everything. They probably know that now and they made it unavailable.
@@hemidenis Strange, I just downloaded the current version, looks that that: ekiwi-blog.de/forum/board/thread/158-minitool/ and it is still possible for me to move and resize partitions in the free version.
@@ekiwi-blog-english I will try your version. I downloaded again and the only option it gives me is changing the disk from "dynamic to to basic" and sent me directly to the payment.
@@ekiwi-blog-english This is an essential thing as it may stop the functionality of the recovery feature. I haven't tested actually. Just read somehwere.
I seriously doubt recovery works after moving the partition. Why? I cloned my HDD to SSD with no change in recovery partition. Yet recovery no longer works. I have tried countless number of ways to fix or to do the clone. Nothing works.
I'm falling short of words to thank you. Many instructors have asked to delete the recovery file through administrator mode in command prompt but it could have ended with problems while booting.
This thing did work for me.
Thank You
Having major security updates issues and couldn't update from windows 10 to 11. This absolutely did the trick!!
so, this works Without using the crasher, - I mean command prompt..... :p loool
Sir i cannot stress how grateful i am to you, i was really scared it wouldn't turn back to normal thank you so much
Perfectly detailed and concise video. Made it very easy to follow along with confidence. Might have been worth advising a backup before getting into anything, but otherwise 100% 👍
@eKiwi, thank you so much for taking the time to make this video tutorial, I really appreciate how easy you made this look. I had 11Gbs of unallocated space on my Samsung SSD which was originally used for 'Over Provisioning' but for some reason Samsung Magician had greyed out the ability to clear the OP, hence therefore why I was looking for other solutions. I had previously read about the MiniTool Partition Wizard but their website doesn't make it very clear how to use it. Your video on the other hand was clear, concise and to the point. 👍I suppose I should also thank the makers of this mini tool also, without this utility I would be scratching my head for answers. Thank you 👍
Genius 😁😁👌👌😎😎 yep through shear grit, sweat & a little alcohol I read and researched this far, cloned 240GB SSD[GPT] to 480GB SSD[GPT]using macrium reflect[free] because other software only did MBR in free version. Then got confused with Disk Manger and the cloned drive size, albeit I was anticipating this outcome from past experience. I found a thread in a random forum recommending minitool, facing the minitool GUI I clicked resize/move and hit the wall of how to move the RE partition, of course the whole bar was a visual representation of the actual drive😒😒 I do think after a spot of lunch I would of got there in the end, but hey you saved me about 3 hours of frustration, much appreciated. I nearly went down the command line rabbit hole, delete recovery partition. I hope you make more truly helpful vids - Subscribed. Peace.
Thanks for the feedback and the subscription :-)
I can't believe blackshark2655 called you very old. I'm 71 so you still look like a adolescent to me. Also your video is awesome!
Thank you for the help.
Thanks for the feedback. I guess it is always a perspective, from which age you are looking. 😁
Thanks man, it really helped a lot to me. ❤️ I was unable to extend my C drive size due recovery partition that was between C drive and Unlocated space and I searched a lot of videos on youtube but none of them worked except you. I salute to you for your efforts ♥️
Looking to do the same thing right now, glad you're saying it worked!
totally agree with these steps. it is wayyy better than deleting the recovery partition, then recreate it in diskpart, then etc. etc.
Finally some real information that’s not some AI “voice”.
Omg thanks so much! I’m struggling with the program because it’s acting dumb. But I’ve been trying to do this process for ages on my moms laptop and I was losing my mind this was an absolute lifesaver
That was the fastest, most straight forward tutorial with free software that didn't require me to buy a license. Thank you and much appreciated!
Ohhhh myyy I was searching for answers to do this and youre the only vid that's helped me and actually work. . .Simple and concise💯 and you even provided the link. I can't thank you enough sir!❤
Sir THANK YOU SO MUCH I've been trying from past 2 hours but can't figure how to do this but only u helped me thanks a lot because of uni have now more space on windows c:
You earned a subscriber 🎉
thank you man, i have full hard drive now! trust anyone with a german accent
Thanks for the help. I couldn't find a tool that would allow me to move Windows partitions for free. You rock!
Thanks man !! Love from a country which is 1000kms away !💌
thank you!! at first I formatted the space that was unallocated and could not move anything, then realized to move partitions you need unallocated space before or after, re-deleted the partition to make it unallocated and it worked !!
Yes. Thank you. When I initially partitioned my drive, I set aside a partition for when I would eventually install Linux for a dual-boot system. This partition turned into a problem and the Linux installer couldn't handle it either.
Saved my laptop ,Thank a lot dude stay young❤ love from india💯
OMG Sir Thank You So much, i have been looking for this, before i delete the recovery partition and its goes wrong and i need to flash the disk C again, now i can simple move the recovery partition without delete them and make damages to my disk C. Thanks you so much 🙏🙏🙏😍
Really great video! Walking through the process before doing it is what I found to be most helpful. I restored an Acronis disk image onto a larger target disk but the recovery partition is in between the unallocated free space, not allowing me to extend the disk. I'm going to use your process to (hopefully) resolve my dilemma. Thank you for sharing! This is really helpful!
You're a life saver!!! Thank you so much for this very useful and straightforward tutorial :)
Thank you, it worked for me! Everyone, make sure you download the free version and click the free version during install. Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback!
Absolutely a life saver. Thank you so much for this video. Worked for me after I cloned my boot drive externally and found my recovery partition to the right of my c drive tht needed expanded with unallocated space.
im so thankfull to you sir so much. thank you for making this video good sir. i just follow all your steps and now my laptop is all set i manage to extend the partition on my partition C where my windows at. Im so very thankfull to you good sir. my problem now has been solve.
Wow thank you, at last I finally managed and it worked! video so simple and straight to the point.
1) Is there any benefit to moving the recovery partition to the left of the main partition next to the other system partition ?
2) If you partitioned the drive into C: and D:, should they both have their own recovery partition ? ( Intuitively, I think that yes, they should.)
superb. its work for me. i have tried lot of videos but your video gave the correct solution man... thank you so much
I did the same thing using gparted in Linux, which incidentally also successfully cloned my drive in the first instance using the dd command (only one line required in terminal!). I tried cloning and resizing at the same time firstly with Macirum and that failed to boot. Using a linux live USB seems the easiest way for a lot of things.
Great video ! Just to give my feedback, during the reboot process the computer gave me two blue sceens of death before starting the partitioning process from the wizzard, but it was fine after that. And to those asking whether or not the recovery mode still works after moving the winRE partition, it seems to be working fine for me. Thanks !
finding all along solutions then find this video....thnks man
Thank you so much for this video!! Perfect presentation. I can't thank you enough. Super simple after seeing your instructions. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
What if you would prefer to have your recovery partition before the system partition? This would allow you to expand the system partition easier if you need to do it again later.
Sounds risky to me, I would suspect that Windows might have trouble booting after that. But you are right, it would be better is this partition was in front.
this is much easier than the other video thank you
Well done. Very helpful and straightforward. TX!!
You are a God for me and for my PC.
I am trying to fix this problem from one or two months and suddenly I seen your videos you are very old but you are helping others by guiding them you are in level of God for me.
thanks for the video! the software you recommended came in super handy for different reasons on different computers. brilliant!
Wish I would have found this BEFORE I deleted the recovery partitions from my new drive to get to that unallocated space. I still have them on my old drive...but haven't had any success yet in reinstalling those old recovery partitions onto my new drive yet. Computer acts like it is trying to boot from the old drive plugged in via a hard drive enclosure when I try. Great software you have though. Best of success with it.
Thanks, sir, I've solved my problem in your pretty simple way
Genius! Thanks bro! It would be a nightmare to format and reinstall everything just for this, jeez man! Thankiu 🤘🏼
I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and your video was EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you!
Hi, nice sharing 👍🏼👍🏼 thanks,
so, what if I don't back up my files, will I lose them?
No, you will lose them. The backup is mainly for "just in case" if something goes wrong. I recommend this always, when fiddling with partitions.
Hello Andy/Daniel,
Thanks for making such Great, simple and easily understandable video.
Keep it up, you saved a lot of time of people to explore.
God bless you,
kocham pana :3
Best tutorial for this out there
Perfect no nonsense video, love it.
thanks a lot for sharing this valuable info
love from india
super helpful program I was racking my brain over this thank you
Helped sooooo much!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Worked perfect! Thank you!!
thannnkkksss uncle you made my day thank youu so much
Truly really helpful video! Thumbs up for you man!
For some reason I am not able to move recovery partition. Not sure if its because of windows 11 or the fact that I have a partition after it.
Awesome video man, thanks for saving me a few gigs of storage. much appreciated.👌👍
Thank you! Worked like a charm
Superb, helped me lot . Thankyou
Hello, Can minitool able to move recovery partition to another disk? Thanks for the helpful vid.
Well I think it would be possible to move the partition to another disk, but I am very sure the partition would not work anymore in that scenario.
@@ekiwi-blog-english thanks for the reply. currently having problem merging my new disk(1) to my main (disk 0) due to the recovery partition in between them.
@@ralphallones1050 OK, I am not sure what you are trying to do, but I think I cannot be much help from here.
Very nice. Thank you these steps and tool worked great
Thank you very much🥰🥰😘 I was very tensed how to solve this thank you very much😘😘
but how to remove in the first partition?
Which one do you want to remove? The system "System reserved partition"?
@@ekiwi-blog-english thank you for replay. iwant "MOVE" :"508MB HEALTHY ROVERY PARTITION" to first one in table, how do that ?????????
Worked like a charm! Thank you!
can we delete the minitool app after moving , does it affect anything ? thank you for the video
Yes you can delete the tool after this.
You saved me,thanks a lot❤
When I did this on my 11th gen i7 laptop, my recovery partion then changed from NTFS to RAW and I lost ability to use reset/recovery. It's now and empty 933mb volume
did not work for me when i click on move / resize volume all that happens is the add pops up telling me i have to buy it
Thank you very much for advice. I have successfully applied it!
Evening sir,whenever I try to move the recovery partition,in that menu where you can move the yellow part to the white part,I don't have the white part.It's all just yellow and I can't move it.Do you know what I can do to fix that?
you need to have Unallocated space to be able to move the partition. I had the same issue. I had two partitions one with the old SSD capacity 256GB and other with 600gb. I deleted the 600gb partitions that I had created before and then I was able to move the Recovery partition.
Thanks for the video!!!! I need to do exactly the same thing and I'll try it today.
Thank you so much really helpful video
Thanks a lot u saved my life
this helped me sooo much! thanks. def deserves a like
and how can I move the recovery partition from the beginning (part 1) to the end?
You can try Gparted, but not sure if this works or is a good idea.
after doing this, I am getting a black screen that windows couldn't launch properly and then it takes me back to half partition with healthy partition sticking to it
When I click on the recovery partition there is no option to move it, this only shows up for the main partition.
Thank you for your help! It all worked fine
Thanks for the video!
Thank you for this tutorial it helped a lot
This tool works great.... Thank you for the lesson.....
And the recovery partition is not damaged? ¿System can be recovered as before? ¿Y no se daña la partición de recuperación?
I never had to try this. The partition itself is not damaged, but I saw another video here on TH-cam where it was mentioned, that the partition might not be found anymore by Windows. There where also instructions how to fix this in Windows.
Perfect thank you, so simple
Is there a way to move the recovery partition instead of to the right, to the left and over the C: drive?
Sorry not sure if thats possible with the software, I show in this video. Maybe with Gparted thats possible, but I have not done that before.
Perfect tool to solve the issue. Light weight too. Thanks!!!👍
After free trial in the app ends, everything go back to what it was?
No this change is permanent.
Amazing job! thank you very much!
I did this and restarted win 11 and now the the Healthy (Recovery Partition) is at the end just like in your video but it doesn't say Healthy (Recovery Partition) any more. It just shows the size as 581 MB. Is this a problem?
Instead of healthy, is there another status message shown or is it just blank? Here is an overview of the states:
www.prajwaldesai.com/hard-disk-volume-status/
@@ekiwi-blog-english just blank
Can you please answer me be i have the same problem
@@mazenarafa23 Sorry I do not know what might be the issue here.
exactly what I needed!
It doesn't work anymore - I followed the instructions, but it tells me that it couldn't be applied, because the drive is active, and I would need to reboot for the program to carry out the job. And when I did, it failed, and didn't do the job at all....
I have a new video that covers that part:
th-cam.com/video/dg7D0FbZbXE/w-d-xo.html
This uses RescueZilla to do the job. The part with the recovery partition is covered at the end.
Thank you so much sir ❤
thank you so much
you're awesome!
Awsome, thanks a lot! Saved tons of time!!
I downloaded the free option and won't let me do nothing at least I pay the subscription. Maybe because I'm in the USA and I'm rich.
Interesting, have you downloaded the Free version or the Pro demo version?
@@ekiwi-blog-english the free one, I really don't know who will go for the pro, the free is good enough for everything. They probably know that now and they made it unavailable.
@@hemidenis Strange, I just downloaded the current version, looks that that:
ekiwi-blog.de/forum/board/thread/158-minitool/
and it is still possible for me to move and resize partitions in the free version.
@@ekiwi-blog-english I will try your version. I downloaded again and the only option it gives me is changing the disk from "dynamic to to basic" and sent me directly to the payment.
@@ekiwi-blog-english same version I have, still won't let me move nothing in C
What about the new place of the recovery partition? I mean does it work for recovery? Is windows boot able to reach it in case of recovery needed?
I have not tried this much, but this should be working. If not you can always create a USB drive with another computer and do recovery from here.
@@ekiwi-blog-english This is an essential thing as it may stop the functionality of the recovery feature. I haven't tested actually. Just read somehwere.
@@zhanko73 Good point, I think I will put that on the list to tryout to be certain.
I seriously doubt recovery works after moving the partition. Why? I cloned my HDD to SSD with no change in recovery partition. Yet recovery no longer works. I have tried countless number of ways to fix or to do the clone. Nothing works.
@@kushis4ever Thanks for the info, I still have that on my list to try this out in details.
many many many many thankyou sir, god bless you
This saved my problem. Thanks a lot (Y)
Thanku you so much Sir thanku so much
Looks great but when using asks for license. Maybe due to a server OS or the policy is changed, so pretty useless now.
Very helpful!
Will this work if C:drive is 80GB and the unallocated free space is only 20GB?
Hard to tell, I do not know your exact layout of your partitions, in general: just try it out. :-)
you life saver bro