Remove android partitions in Chuwi Vi8

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Remove android partitions from Chuwi Vi8

NOTE: THIS IS A WORK IN PROGESS

This gist shows you how to remove the android partitions from a dualboot Chuwi Vi8. This is usually done to create more space for the windows installation as many people will find that a single OS is more than enough for a 32GB drive.

Instructions

Disk Management

1. Open Disk Management
2. Delete all the RAW partitions, be CAREFUL to NOT delete Recovery, System or your C: drive

Administrator Command Prompt

1. Open an admin command prompt and run "diskpart"
2. run "LIST DISK" to show available disks
3. run "SELECT DISK 0", replace 0 with the number of your main parition if needed.
4. run "LIST PARTITION" to show partitions, write down the partition number for the Reserved partition.
5. run "SELECT PARTITION X" where "X" is the number for the reserved partition.
6. run "DELETE PARTITION OVERRIDE", first MAKE SURE YOU SELECTED THE CORRECT PARTITION!!!!
7. run "CREATE PARTITION MSR SIZE=128"

EaseUS Partition Manager

1. Open EaseUS partition manager
2. Right click on the main Windows partition and select "Extend" (or was that "Resize"? I don't recall the menu option, but it should be obvious); alternatively if you created a D: drive from the empty space, use the "Merge" option.
3. Drag the left handle in the partition resize dialog all the way to the left, click OK
4. Click the Apply button in the EaseUS toolbar
5. EaseUS will have you reboot and run a pre-boot utility to do the partition resize. Let it do its job.

At this stage, everything is working, however you can't use the recovery. To fix it, you can follow the steps victaru provided:

1. Open an Admin command prompt
2. DISKPART
3. SELECT DISK 0
4. LIST PARTITION (you'll see the recovery partition, should be the last one, about 5 GB)
5. SELECT PARTITION 4 (or whatever partition number you saw in the list)
6. SET ID=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
7. EXIT

Source(s)

• adapted from xda post

Hi
I did this and remove android , but I need flashing again to have vi8 dual os both windows and android factory, can you help me how to flash this tablet??? tnx

Trying to do this with a Vi8 Plus and my disk now looks like this;
[Unallocated 11GB] [EFI Partition 100MB] [Unallocated 16MB] [Windows 16GB] [Recovery 1GB]

I can't merge the 2 partitions as there's an EFI partition between them. Is it possible to move the EFI partition to the beginning of the disk?