Saturday, March 11, 2017

How to use entire disk space in Windows 10 when installing from system image?


I created a system image of my Windows installation.


My original hard drive size was 120gb.


When I installed from the system image onto a 500gb hard drive I had unallocated space. The problem is I cannot extend the 120gb volume into this unallocated space because the recovery partition is in between the 120gb space and the unallocated space.


I did a quick web search and supposedly there is software that will allow extending into the unallocated space. But I'd rather restore from the image again if there is a way to use the entire drive during installation.


Is there a way to do this during installation using system image?


Answer



I used Diskpart to delete the recovery partitions which allowed me to extend the partition into the unallocated spaces.


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