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I bought a new SSD and cloned my existing HDD on that SSD, but now I recognized that I have a bit strange order of the partitions:

System-Reserved (~350MB), Windows (~150GB), Recovery (~534MB), nothing (~50GB), Data (~700GB) and again nothing (~900GB).

I would like to increase the Windows partition however that unexpected Recovery partition is preventing this. I'm wondering if I can move the recovery partition to the end of the ssd so that I have more room for new or other partitions? To be honest I have no idea how that recovery partition is linked and if it matters if that partition moved to a later "index".

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  • You can indeed move the partition. You would have to use a third-party disk partitioning to do that. You should of course take the steps to backup any critical data. I will not provide a recommendation.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 16:46
  • Does this answer your question? I want to expand a partition on my boot SSD, but there is a Recovery Partition and EFI System Partition in the way. How can I get around this?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 16:47
  • Not really to be honest. I'm not sure what steps I need to do to make sure that the recovery partition is still working when I moved it. I'm right now thinking that resizing the Windows partition is the best option and then moving or copying the recovery partition into the new free room. So that the order is system reserved, recovery and then windows. I have in mind that I there must be a link in the MBR to make the system boot.
    – rekire
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 18:14
  • In order to do that you will have to use a third-party drive partition software
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 18:23
  • I'm aware of this, but this still doesn't answer if just moving and resizing partitions is all to make it still working afterwards.
    – rekire
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 19:23

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