On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:54:04 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

Per Mayayana:
I don't know why you think the HP partition is critical.
I always delete those. It's only useful if you don't have
backed up disk images of C.

That was my knee-jerk reaction: just delete it.

But when I do that, the system boots up throwing a dialog that reads
something like "Desktop.ini not found" and there's basically an empty desktop
- so I jumped to the assumption that the HP partition contained some files
used day-to-day.

Vanguard, Paul, John, and you have given me hope.

I had thrown in the towel and just re-imaged to an old 1TB backup drive - but
now I think I will re-visit the scene with the 2TB drive.

First thing I will try is looking for Macrium's Resize-Partition option.

If that doesn't happen, I'll move on to Paul's approach and, if that does not
work out, will start looking for a partition manager that will do the job.

I would recommend using VanguardLH's approach first. Grab a partition
manager and be amazed at how easy it is to do what you're trying to do.
My choice is the Minitool Partition Wizard, which he linked, but the
others should work as well.

No need to do another Macrium restore, and (sorry Paul!) no need to do
multiple restores. A partition manager will have you sorted within a few
minutes.

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Char Jackson