I'm running windows 8.1 on a Chuwi Vi10 - a chinese tablet with a dual boot windows - android setup. On board the device comes with only 32gb, of which 10GB is used by the android OS, which I don't use anyway. I have deleted the android partitions, though they are to the left of the windows partition. All the android partitions were removed using diskmgmt. The MSR partition of 128MB remains before the system partition, which does not show on diskmgmt, though is shown by 3rd party partition managers.
Using advice for 3rd party applications in this thread I attempted to extend the partition. All failed to extend the partition.
I have also tried to boot to a USB with Partition Magic/GParted (created and tested to be bootable using Unetbootin on Windows 7) though get "System doesn't have and USB boot option. Please select other boot option in Boot Manager Menu." This could be a vendor specific message though. Using the EFI boot menu there are indeed only 3 options (Windows, Android and EFI shell). I checked some boot settings, which showed that USB booting was enabled.
I also installed EasyUEFI to attempt to alter the EFI boot menu, though this was unsuccessful. Interestingly, EasyUEFI showed additional EFI boot entries for USB, Network and CD/DVD which do not show when attempting to actually boot.
I have already backed up the PC using the System Backup. Short of creating another partition and just using that in Windows, is there anything that I can do to either boot to USB and use a UNIX partition manager to move around the partitions, or somehow fix the 3rd party partition managers. It seems that the MSR can be removed safely - perhaps this is interfering with the extension somehow?
All help greatly appreciated.
Using advice for 3rd party applications in this thread I attempted to extend the partition. All failed to extend the partition.
I have also tried to boot to a USB with Partition Magic/GParted (created and tested to be bootable using Unetbootin on Windows 7) though get "System doesn't have and USB boot option. Please select other boot option in Boot Manager Menu." This could be a vendor specific message though. Using the EFI boot menu there are indeed only 3 options (Windows, Android and EFI shell). I checked some boot settings, which showed that USB booting was enabled.
I also installed EasyUEFI to attempt to alter the EFI boot menu, though this was unsuccessful. Interestingly, EasyUEFI showed additional EFI boot entries for USB, Network and CD/DVD which do not show when attempting to actually boot.
I have already backed up the PC using the System Backup. Short of creating another partition and just using that in Windows, is there anything that I can do to either boot to USB and use a UNIX partition manager to move around the partitions, or somehow fix the 3rd party partition managers. It seems that the MSR can be removed safely - perhaps this is interfering with the extension somehow?
All help greatly appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 x86