{"id":1726,"date":"2025-11-09T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:41:04","slug":"fixing-a-windows-cloned-drive-that-you-need-to-expand-the-main-partition-but-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a windows cloned drive that you need to expand the main partition, but can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fix &quot;Can&#039;t Extend C Drive with Unallocated Space&quot; in Windows 10\/11\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K76z0gQm9oA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is pretty well perfect for this task:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already cloned the drive, but now you&#8217;ve got wasted extra space, but you can&#8217;t extend the partition because there&#8217;s a windows recovery partition in the way. The video linked walks you through it perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you fix that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>command line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reagentc \/disable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>diskpart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>list partition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>select partition x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>detail partition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>delete partition override<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-create the Recovery Partition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>list partition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>select partition x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>set id=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gpt attributes=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>list volume<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>select volume y<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>remove letter=y<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>exit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reagentc \/enable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: x=disk or partition number, y=volume letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is pretty well perfect for this task: If you&#8217;ve already cloned the drive, but now you&#8217;ve got wasted extra space, but you can&#8217;t extend the partition because there&#8217;s a windows recovery partition in the way. The video linked walks you through it perfectly. Here&#8217;s how you fix that: command line: reagentc \/disable diskpart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,118,98,113,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-command-line","category-installation-guides","category-it-knowledge-base-articles","category-servers","category-windows","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}