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I've just bought an MSI Prestige 14 Evo A12M, which comes with 1TB disk partitioned as in DISKPART Details below. I want to resize Windows 935GB partition into a Windows 150GB and Data 785-GB. Technically no problem, but when I did it on my previous Lenovo, 10 years ago, I've run into similar situation like in this thread (TL;DR; windows recovery system, stopped recognizing recovery partition). Lenovo One-Key Recovery Feature broken after resizing partition

So my question are:

  • Is that Lenovo specific issue, as I didn't find articles for other manufacturers?
  • Is this old technology related, as my issue was 10 years ago and in the mentioned thread, it was 5 years ago.
  • Should I undertake any specific steps to avoid the issue?

DISKPART Details

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition


Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset




Partition 1    System             300 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Reserved           128 MB   301 MB
  Partition 3    Primary            935 GB   429 MB
  Partition 4    Recovery           900 MB   935 GB
  Partition 5    Recovery            17 GB   936 GB


DISKPART> list volume


Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info




Volume 0     C   Windows      NTFS   Partition    935 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 1         SYSTEM       FAT32  Partition    300 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 2         WinRE tools  NTFS   Partition    900 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 3         BIOS_RVY     NTFS   Partition     17 GB  Healthy    Hidden
Bart
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It may very well be that the code that is responsible for restoring your operating system is programmed in a very simple manner and is based on some hardcoded assumptions that you can't change.

Once you violate those assumptions by modifying your partition layout the code fails.

You are probably thinking about shortening the windows partition and inserting the data partition into the newly created space behind the windows partition.

It might make a difference if you are inserting the data partition as last partition but that would require moving the volumes 1,2 and 3 towards the windows partition. That moving process is risky and its time consuming.

Proposal

As separating your data is a good idea I would bite the bullet, modify the partition table as intended and creating a system backup (containing volume 1,2 and 3 from your installation using some commercial software run by a USB pen drive.

When finished remove your main drive from your computer and insert a new blank one and try to restore the freshly made backup.

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