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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf (I was following steps from this link. I saw that I have 520MB of Healthy Recovery Partition in which I failed to shrink and the error was "you may not shrink OEM, ESPY or recovery partitions, or, offline volumes. The volume you have selected may not be shrunk. Please select another volume and try again.".) (Also when I shrink from C: and then I do not see new partition which suppose to be seen).
So kindly help.
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Thanks, I realized where I was going wrong, it was just at the time of selecting the primary disk to shrink it, instead of selecting the primary partition I selected the recovery partition.
That reason i receipt the error:
You may not shrink OEM, ESP, or recovery partitions, or, offline volumes.
The volume you have selected may not be shrunk. Please select another volume and try again.
That's right, your WinRE partition is # 4.
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You don't have the skills to do this manually. Don't even try it.
Thank you,
and for WinRE partition index
How would I find that/which one is that?
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 7b0fd3eb-b436-11eb-a531-a789c187fa84
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
Your OS partition is the primary one, # 3.