Bootable Recovery Partition on Secondary HDD Storage Drive

rougeshadow

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Hello Everyone,

I just got a new laptop that has a 256GB SSD boot drive and a 1TB HDD Storage drive. Dell put 2 recovery partitions and and OEM partition on the SSD and I want to maximize my SSD space. I have already created a USB recovery media but I would like to be able to still reset or refresh my PC if I need to while on the go. Is there a way to move or copy these partitions over to the HDD and have the Windows Recovery Environment still be bootable and the reset and refresh functions still working?

Thanks for the help
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
from command prompt(admin)
type> diskpart
type> list disk
type> select disk # (# being the disk number for the ssd)
type> list partition
type> exit
type> reagentc /info

post a pic of cmd window
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
Thanks for the Reply

So my HDD is disk 0 and the SSD is disk 1

The OS is installed on the SSD and the HDD is just an empty drive.

Here is what was listed for diskpart
Diskpart.jpg

When I tried to run reangetn /info I got en error
reagentc fail.jpg

I hope this helps.

Thanks
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
from cmd(admin)

type> reagentc /info

what you got for files on your recovery USB - I am looking for a PBR_diskpart.txt or partition **

To be honest you have 1 extra partition and 2 a little large - but really nothing wrong

View attachment 59117
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
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