Does anybody know how to do that? There are lots of guides dealing with similar issues but none of them deal with MSI machines and I keep reading that OEM recoveries are custom made and different. So I would think that if I moved that partition, I would have to update this reference. I assume this will break the MSI recovery because partition 4 is referenced by WinRE as shown by the reagentc command in the attached image. Since I'm installing Linux on a partition at the end of the HDD, I could use GParted to move the 900 MB partition. What I can't understand is why MSI decided to create this 900 MB recovery partition between partitions 3 and 5 (drive C and D)? There is no way for me to combine them into one large usable partition. Now I would prefer the MSI recovery image partition to be at the start of the drive before the OS partition but it's not a big deal. My SSD now consists of 6 partitions shown in the attached image. Later I will be shrinking it to create two more partitions for a Linux installation. I wiped the HDD and created just one partition for now.
The laptop now has the SSD and a 1 TB HDD (original OS installation). Just installed a 512 GB M.2 2280 SSD in a new GE72 and recovered the OS from a USB backup created with MSI Burn Recovery.
