Actually it’s quite simple. To expand a partition to the left you need to move existing data blocks. Unfortunately Microsoft’s tools (including diskpart) still haven’t implemented that feature.
So instead they shrink the OS partition, delete the RE partition and recreate RE beginning from the new position after the OS partition. That’s what also happened just recently as described here.
As for the additional partition seen in this thread something might’ve gone wrong. Or it actually is an OEM partition that’s left untouched by MS as presumed already.
So instead they shrink the OS partition, delete the RE partition and recreate RE beginning from the new position after the OS partition. That’s what also happened just recently as described here.
As for the additional partition seen in this thread something might’ve gone wrong. Or it actually is an OEM partition that’s left untouched by MS as presumed already.