Moving Recovery Partition to the End of Disk or Another Disk?

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• #1 Move recovery partition to the end of same disk [same]
• #2 Move recovery partition to another disk drive? [another]

C Drive Expanding and the recovery partition stands in the way?

Background: Many users want to move the recovery partition to another place simply because the recovery partition stands in the way between the unallocated space and the target drive c.

Quick Fix: To quick solve the problem, free tool Partition Resizer can help change the location between the unallocated space and the recovery partition easily without losing data by simply clicking the recovery partition, and then move it whole right/left forward, and then the location is changed. (You still need to apply the batch of changes after you expand the c drive with the unallocated space with the free tool Partition Resizer.)

Details: how to move recovery partition to expand c drive

Part1: Move recovery partition to end of disk without losing data (On the same disk)

Note: This part introduces a free tool called IM-Magic Partition Resizer that can help change the location of any volume on the same disk without losing data, and the recovery partition is included.

Conditions: Moving the recovery partition needs unallocated space on the disk that you may shrink some from another large volume or delete a volume to create unallocated space.

Video: How to move recovery partition

Here are some notes:

• 1, The location of the recovery partition can only be moved/changed when there is close empty space unallocated, which can only be generated from shrinking a large volume, or deleting a volume. If the unallocated space is not adjacent to the recovery partition, it can be moved close to it by moving the partitions which are next to the unallocated space.
• 2, The locations of each partition can only be changed one by one next to each other
• 3, The order of the partitions cannot be changed, c d e f g h, if named, or c h g t for example, cannot be changed to c g h t except when you delete a volume, and then change one drive letter

Example#1 Move recovery partition to the end of E/D drive

Disk structure: C, recovery partition, E or D or any drive letter it might be

Target: How to move recovery partition to the end of disk, behind the E drive

The key: drive E must be deleted, option, you may backup e drive to another disk at first, and then restore it later

Video: Steps to move recovery partition to the end of the disk

Preparations: Prepare another empty disk to backup drive e

Step1: Insert/prepare another disk, download and install free tool Partition Resizer, and open this free tool

Step2: Right click E drive in Partition Resizer, go to 'Copy Partition' and select another free disk as target backup place (Please do empty the disk at first, move its old data to somewhere else before this step to make sure you have an empty disk for making a backup on an empty disk)

Step3: Click apply changes

Also read: how to backup partition to another drive

Section B: Deleting Drive E/D after the backup

Deleting the E/D drive is now safe when you have backup. Deleting a volume can be done via several ways:

• 1, Delete E/D drive in free tool Partition Resizer by simply right clicking the E drive, and go to DELETE PARTITION and then confirm the deletion
• 2, Delete E/D drive in Disk Management
• 3, Delete E/D drive by using command Diskpart

Section C: Move the recovery partition to end of disk

Since drive E/D volume has been deleted and now its place will show unallocated space on the disk, it's safe to move the recovery partition to the end of disk safely using free tool PARTITION RESIZER.

Steps1: Open Partition Resizer, right click the recovery partition in the software, go to RESIZE/MOVE option

Steps2: Move the whole recovery partition right forward when the mouse shows cross arrows till it gets the end of the disk

Steps3: Apply changes, to get c drive, unallocated space, and the recovery partition

Or you may clone your old drive E or else back here to the unallocated space. If you want to clone the E drive back here on the disk, here are the steps.

• 1, Insert the backup disk to get the backup E drive loaded on this PC
• 2, Open Partition Resizer, right click the cloned E drive, go to option: Copy Partition
• 3, Select the target disk, unallocated space to restore the cloned E drive (There must be unallocated space with more than source disk cloned drive disk storage, ie a 40GB unallocated space and above is required for cloning a 40GB volume.)
• 4, Click APPLY CHANGES to confirm the cloning and wait for every step to be applied

And finally the recovery partition is moved to the end of the disk as you wish, just in a round way.

Part2: Moving recovery partition to another hard disk? ->NO

Question#1: Is it possible to move the recovery partition to another drive?

Answer: Yes, if it's on the same disk or same virutal disk built by raid array. You can move it to anywhere on the same disk if there were unallocated space on the disk. This can be done with the help of free tool IM-Magic Partition Resizer. It's totally free on Windows 11-7, and it offers free trial on Windows server OS.

Question#2: How to move the recovery partition to another disk?

Answer: This shall be done with the help of IM-Magic Partition Resizer that offers free disk cloning that you may clone the whole disk to another disk to get the recovery partition cloned to another disk as backup. The fact is you cannot get a up to date recovery partition from then if you continue using the source disk and making changes, then the recovery partition will not work.

This following image shows the function of cloning a disk using this free tool Partition Resizer.

Also read: how to clone disk to another drive using free tool Partition Resizer

Also read:

how to move recovery partition on server 2016/2019/2022

Video: how to move partition to the end of disk with Gparted

Also read: how to move recovery partition using gprated