How to delete Android and merge partitions in Windows for more space

[Taras Rudko]

Thank you very much for tutorial. Worked for me on Chuwi HI8.

[Regilio Bouma]

how do i restore windows? i cant reset it. im selling it and it says recovery not found…

need help fast

 

nvm deleted my accoutn and all apps 🙁 dont like it but yeah it looks empty

there problem now. it work nice on windows 8.1

wont installer windows 10. or factory reset

[Benny]

Hi Chris, all and marry Christmas!

I have been flowing your work (reviews) on tablets for several time, nice work indeed.

I even bought my x16 power due to your review on the X16 Pro.

my question is, it is possible to just change the size (reduce it to 10GB instead of 20 GB) of the android OS, and increase  the size of the windows drive?

thanks

 

 

 

[juan]

Hi, my chuwi vi10 will arrive next year. I have read lost of post and i want to do this in order to maximize windows and preserve dual boot with android.

Please, could anybody check this list? May be there is someone that has already done it?

1. Make full backup with macrium reflect free (all partitions). There is also a full back here, but just in case.
2. Check W8.1 activation
3. Check my hardware/serial version and look for W10 drivers
4. Update to W10
5. Check W10 auto activation
6. Now I can do a clean install of W10.
7. ERASE windows recovery partition (number 18th, last one) and updated W10 partition (number 17th). Not touch any other partition.
8. Boot from USB with W10 home ISO and make an installation un unallocated space (old 17th and 18th partitions, around 20Gb)
9. Install W10 drivers and check W10 auto activation
10. Make a second macrium reflect backup (just in case)

Do you think that erase windows recovery partition is very dangerous? If we have a macrium reflect backup, and also flash  images from @Chris ….

Any help or opinion or experience will be very usefull for me.

Regards and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

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[Maxxim]

It doesn’t have to be that complicated. 🙂 Just do an in-place upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, it works fine, I’ve just tried it.

1. Make a full backup (always a good thing to do) using a Macrium Reflect bootable flashdrive
2. Start Windows, perform all the necessary first steps
3. Check for updates several times, install all the updates
4. When prompted, upgrade to Windows 10
5. Uninstall the old OS switching app
6. Download and install the Windows 10 version of the OS switching app

And that’s it! You won’t need to bother with partitioning and performing a clean install, worry about getting the right drivers, or double-check the activation status of Windows. It Just Works. (Never thought I’d say that about Windows, but it does! :))

[juan]

But if need more windows free space .. Is it good what i have propossed ?

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[Maxxim]

If you need more disk space for Windows while keeping Android, you’ll have to resize Android’s /data partition (it’s the largest of Android partitions, weighing in at 11GB on my 64GB Vi10 Pro). Problem is, nobody ever confirmed it’s safe to do so — I, for one, would be really interested to know —  and I did search quite a bit. All the instructions I found concerned getting rid of either Windows or Android.

If you intend to keep the Android partitions as they were, then no further manipulations with Windows partitions are necessary — the Windows 10 installer will do its job wonderfully. Your recovery partition will be a mere 450 MB, and the rest of Windows disk space will be in a single large partition.

[juan]

Maxxim wrote:

If you need more disk space for Windows while keeping Android, you’ll have to resize Android’s /data partition (it’s the largest of Android partitions, weighing in at 11GB on my 64GB Vi10 Pro). Problem is, nobody ever confirmed it’s safe to do so — I, for one, would be really interested to know — and I did search quite a bit. All the instructions I found concerned getting rid of either Windows or Android. If you intend to keep the Android partitions as they were, then no further manipulations with Windows partitions are necessary — the Windows 10 installer will do its job wonderfully. Your recovery partition will be a mere 450 MB, and the rest of Windows disk space will be in a single large partition.

Hi, you say that windows 10 wil erase and merge the partition number 18 ? the one that haas 6Gb (almost) and is the recovery partition for windows 8.1 ???

Or you mean about delete it and delete “c:\” partition (number 17) and then install windows 10???

 

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[Maxxim]

juan wrote:

you say that windows 10 wil erase and merge the partition number 18 ? the one that haas 6Gb (almost) and is the recovery partition for windows 8.1 ???

Exactly! 🙂

Still, I would love to resize Android’s /data partition in favor of Windows. I wonder if anybody has any info on the proper way to do that. (I have a suspicion that one does not simply resize an Android partition. :))

[juan]

Maxxim wrote:

juan wrote:

you say that windows 10 wil erase and merge the partition number 18 ? the one that haas 6Gb (almost) and is the recovery partition for windows 8.1 ???

Exactly!

And windows 10 does it automatically ? Or do i have to delete both manually ?

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[Maxxim]

Don’t worry, everything will be done automatically. You only need to follow the simple 6-step procedure I outlined above.
Yes, believe it or not, things CAN be easy and straightforward with Windows. 🙂

(edited three days later)
Bah, resizing Android’s /data partition to allocate more space to Windows turned out to be trivial. 🙂 The only stumbling block was a Microsoft Reserved Partition that was in the way and couldn’t be moved by any partition management software except for Aomei Partition Assistant (the makers of which probably just disregarded Microsoft’s guidelines). In fact, moving the MSR was just a minor convenience — one can get away with deleting it and then recreating it with diskpart, or reserving space for the MSR in a new location and restoring the partition from a Macrium Reflect backup.

[Manuel L]

Hello! Where did you downloaded the w8 iso rom from?

Thanks in advance.

[Schuh sohle]

Hi i am New to this China tablet stuft and i want to know if it is possible to remove the Windows partition and merge the rest to the Android partition.

I use only my Android so i would Mike to increase it’s memory.

[BT]

Koko wrote:

Gnomi wrote:

Koko wrote:

Michał Chrząszcz wrote:

Hello There ! I was trying to do this but i have a small problem with Merge the 128 mb partition with windows partition. After I delete the 128 mb partition, and make a new one NTFS from this space its ok, than i merge it to the 9 gb New Volume is also ok but than i cant merge it to the windows space ( partition ) There is nothing to choose from options, i click right mouse button and menu appears <noscript></noscript><noscript><noscript></noscript></noscript><noscript><noscript></noscript><noscript><noscript></noscript></noscript></noscript>Some solutions for this ? At least I Have partition, but i cant merge it ;D

Your problem is you are not using full version of software, trial version won’t work. See first post

Hello ! Thank you for this tutorial ! I have the exact same problem of him, but I don’t understand why because i’m running the full version… To have the full version of it, are we agree you just have to double click on “Professionnal Key x86” and thats all ? Thank you very much ! Edit : I just added the screenshot

Yes, thats all for the full version. From your screenshot it seems everything is okay and you just need to click apply on the upper left?

 

in case anyone has problem, you have to click on both “Professionnal Key x86” and “Professionnal Key x64” to get the full version

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my ques – is there a Windows MSR partition that we should keep it untouched?

thanks.

 

 

[josef]

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