Moving around partitions

[chipmunk12]

Hello,
I used Samsung's utility to copy my old SSD to a new one.
Everything went fine and works perfectly but I have some concerns.

I have 2 recovery partitions, my RESTORE partition increased in size, and I can't extend my C drive to include 375.74GB of unallocated memory. 

I feel comfortable working in a live-boot environment of some Linux distro if needed.

Please, advice me on which partition to remove and how to allocate empty space to my main drive.

[chipmunk12]

Okay, I figured it out myself.
I was kinda uncomfortable messing with partitions on my own, which is why I was looking for help.
I booted into the live environment of Fedora and downloaded GParted.

At first, I couldn’t figure out how the process of “moving” partitions worked, but then I got it.
I started with the RESTORE partition, resized it to the smallest possible size, and moved it to the far right.

Then I had to move the recovery partition to the far right as well.

GParted did not let me extend my OS partition, I just did it in Windows after all that.

Result:

The RESTORE partition turned out to contain just one .swm file to restore my notebook (thanks, ASUS).

In the end, I didn’t want to mess around with the other recovery partitions, so I just left them as they were.

[m9x3mos]

On 8/11/2025 at 12:33 PM, chipmunk12 said:

Okay, I figured it out myself.
I was kinda uncomfortable messing with partitions on my own, which is why I was looking for help.
I booted into the live environment of Fedora and downloaded GParted.

At first, I couldn’t figure out how the process of “moving” partitions worked, but then I got it.
I started with the RESTORE partition, resized it to the smallest possible size, and moved it to the far right.

Then I had to move the recovery partition to the far right as well.

GParted did not let me extend my OS partition, I just did it in Windows after all that.

Result:

The RESTORE partition turned out to contain just one .swm file to restore my notebook (thanks, ASUS).

In the end, I didn’t want to mess around with the other recovery partitions, so I just left them as they were.

This partition nonsense is one reason I never keep the oem install. 

I always boot it up to make sure everything works. 

Then export the drivers and slip stream them into a clean iso and reinstall work debloat.

Just makes everything work better, less problems, and none of that goofy layout.