Solved How to shrink Win 8.1 C drive with OEM partition in front

awesi7

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Hi Everyone,I would like to shrink my C drive (it has the OS on it) to dual boot with another OS but I am not sure where to begin as there are other recovery partitions in front of the C partition. Disk Management and Disk Part showed me less partitions than G-parted did. I've attached screen shots.Would it be safe to shrink it anyway?Please see my computer specs. If more info is needed, please ask. Thanks for any help / suggestions.
 

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP -23-h009
    CPU
    AMD A6-5200 APU -4 cores, 2.0 GHz
    Motherboard
    Dogwood, Femto AIX
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC3228
    Hard Drives
    1TB SATA
    Browser
    FF, Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
Welcome to the forum The photo is too small for me to read it if you could post a bigger one
Sorry. I hope these are better. I repost them in the original post.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP -23-h009
    CPU
    AMD A6-5200 APU -4 cores, 2.0 GHz
    Motherboard
    Dogwood, Femto AIX
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC3228
    Hard Drives
    1TB SATA
    Browser
    FF, Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
You can shrink to the left no problem what other o/s are you going to use if it's older you may then have fun duel booting you install the oldest one first. You can use free virtual box and run any o/s as virtual PC and don't have to touch partitions
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 8 pro
Thanks samurai. I was thinking of dual booting with a Linux distro. I didn't think of using a VM which may be another option if the partition thing doesn't go as planned.

Appreciate you help very much:).
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP -23-h009
    CPU
    AMD A6-5200 APU -4 cores, 2.0 GHz
    Motherboard
    Dogwood, Femto AIX
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC3228
    Hard Drives
    1TB SATA
    Browser
    FF, Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
the recovery partition will not be a problem, as you can only shrink a partition from the right.

Thanks mysery126.
A question I meant to ask at the outset. In that case, can I then delete the OEM recovery partition? I created a bootable disk (usb) and imaged all the partitions with Macrium Reflect a few days ago.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP -23-h009
    CPU
    AMD A6-5200 APU -4 cores, 2.0 GHz
    Motherboard
    Dogwood, Femto AIX
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC3228
    Hard Drives
    1TB SATA
    Browser
    FF, Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
The OEM recovery partition is for restoring your computer to factory default settings when in serious problem. Since you have created a backup including all partitions, I think you can delete the OEM partition.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win8 64bit
The OEM recovery partition is for restoring your computer to factory default settings when in serious problem. Since you have created a backup including all partitions, I think you can delete the OEM partition.

Sounds good.
samurai, mysery126, thanks for the time you took to help me out here.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP -23-h009
    CPU
    AMD A6-5200 APU -4 cores, 2.0 GHz
    Motherboard
    Dogwood, Femto AIX
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC3228
    Hard Drives
    1TB SATA
    Browser
    FF, Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
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