To expand the size of the main Windows volume, we will have to delete the recovery partition to the right of it, extend the volume and recreate the recovery partition. In my case, the bootloader is on the EFI partition:
Extend Volume The Screenshots we used in this guide page are taken from Windows Server 2012 64-bit Edition. Click on the boot volume and again Resize Move Volume to extend system partition by dragging the handle to the end. to dynamic or the volume being extended is a boot or system volume. So behind the primary partition, we have unallocated space support. Please pay attention to the following sections: To check the active recovery partition, run the command:
For example, you can assign a drive letters E: and R: using the the Disk Management or Diskpart.exe: select disk 0 -> select part 1 -> assign letter r. To understand, which of them is used by Windows as an active recovery partition, you must assign the drive letters to your partitions. On the screenshot, you can see that there are two recovery partitions ( Recovery and Windows RE).
