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I just did a clean install of Windows 10 on my laptop, and Windows places a 450MB recovery partition at the beginning of my boot drive.

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Is there a way to delete the recovery partition, and reallocate the space to the "C:" partition? AOMEI, EaseUS, etc., claim to have this capability, but in fact do not; none of the utilities that I can find will move the partition with the active operating system. This makes sense. Is there a command-line utility or a boot loader that will move the partitions before the OS is loaded?

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You can avoid this problem by doing the partitioning yourself before the Windows install which you can do from diskpart from the console (Shift + F10 in the Installer or recovery environment or you can do it with a Linux live cd using parted of fdisk.

However its probably good idea to keep the ESP somewhere around 256MiB to future proof it for multi-boot systems. Further I would create the recovery partition after the Windows partition anyway so you have it. It's then trivial to delete it later and resize the Windows partition.

If you want to keep the current system intact you can either use gparted to move all the data over or you can use diskclone to copy all of the allocated data only to another disk or partition.

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