Why can not change the size of hidden partition during recoverey from a hard drive to another hard drive ?
Hello everyone, this question about ATIH 2012 confuse me a lot.
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it says don't change the size of hidden partition during recovery from a hard drive to another drive . My think pad's hidden partition size is 1.46G, but used space only 370MB, if I don't change the space of hidden partition I will waste at least 1G, in addition, how to prove the resized hidden partition will make the same size as before ? If there was 4KB More or less, what will happen? I think we just need make sure the resized hidden partition bigger than the original used space will be fine ? For example, the original used space is 370MB, I can resize the hidden partition to 371MB will be fine ?
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You'd be best to ask Lenovo that question. OEMs often use proprietary formats for the stuff they place in hidden partitions, used for diagnostics, factory-state recovery, etc. It's possible that the files are in compressed state but require free disk space to expand when run.
Rather than reduce the size, which could make the utilities on that partition unusable, you might be able to entirely remove it. My Dell laptop had a hidden partition that contained files and apps to restore the laptop to factory state. I deleted that partition, thus freeing up almost 20 GB in disk space that I allocated to my user partitions.
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