Questions tagged [system-reserved-partition]
System reserved partitions are used to store vital operating system files, such as boot data, the boot loader and the startup files used for BitLocker drive encryption.
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Resizing partition without destroying recovery partition
I've just bought an MSI Prestige 14 Evo A12M, which comes with 1TB disk partitioned as in DISKPART Details below.
I want to resize Windows 935GB partition into a Windows 150GB and Data 785-GB.
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How to extend Microsoft Reserved partition
I cannot receive Windows 11 feature updates, specifically Windows 11 version 22H2.
I tried joining the Windows Insider Programme initially on the Release Preview channel, but this still did not list ...
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How is display initiated after sleep mode? Does the BIOS/OS uses the EFI partition?
I'm having some weird lines displayed in my screen after my computer goes to sleep mode and when I turn it on.
These lines are displayed randomly and I think it has something to do with the EFI ...
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New install of Pop!_OS, dual booting on a Dell machine with Pre-installed Windows 10. 522mb EFI boot partition is 97% full. Why?
Every time I boot up I get the warning
Low disk space on 'efi' The volume 'efi' has only 12.4 MB disk space
remaining.
Overview:
This is a brand new machine, a Dell XPS 17 that came preinstalled ...
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Deleting EFI partition
I'm trying to delete a Windows EFI system partition on my HDD. I decided that I want to move the boot files from the HDD onto one of my SSDs as the HDD is old and I'm afraid of it eventually dying on ...
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Moving Windows 10 from old BIOS computer to new UEFI-only computer
My customer is running Windows 10 on an ancient computer - so ancient it doesn't even support USB 3, but it is 64-bit. It's some kind of Pentium-class machine that originally had Windows 7 on it. ...
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Default windows hidden files systems
During my learning of how named pipes works inside Windows, I've found this explanation :
Every pipe is placed in the root directory of the named pipe
filesystem (NPFS), mounted under the special ...
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Windows boot and system partition on different disks
I have a problem which was caused probably by years of patch repairing my system multiple times and that resulted in having a windows (C:) drive that acts as the boot drive and recently converted to ...
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Not enough space in System Reserved partition (for shadow copy) when trying to create System Image
I do know that system image is a legacy way to create Windows 10 backups, and I only use it as added helper method.
I freshly installed my Windows 10 19041 Workstation and in the setup I created a ...
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Why Windows 10 has 3 primary partitions?
I don't know why it happened and what is the third unallocated space. Also, it is a primary partition! Can I delete it? Because I need one primary partition to install manjaro on dual boot.
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Fixing a windows boot error on another drive
Here is the situation: A few days ago, I tried to dual boot linux, and had to end up uninstalling it. I thought that simply deleting the partition in which I installed it would be good enough, but now ...
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So what exactly is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL(IN %) in Dell ALIENWARE Laptop?
So what exactly is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL(IN %) in Dell ALIENWARE Laptop?
RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL (RBL)
WHAT is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL?
Please follow with the series of screenshots for explanation
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CD/DVD drive won't operate after installing Linux
I'm not sure if this problem is related to installing Linux, but I have a Dell desktop from many years ago (I can look up the model number if it's important) on which I installed Bodhi Linux a few ...
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Windows 10 4TB HDD formatted with MBR by Windows
Yesterday I set up my new PC. I installed Windows 10 via a USB boot drive. My PC has an SSD which I wanted to use for the OS and important applications and then I‘ve got an HDD with 4TB for mass ...
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Is it possible to create more system reserved space?
I installed windows xp(32bit) on a laptop.
But it had not a drivers for audio and the ethernet.
I managed to install the audio driver. It installed on drive C(system reserved space) and it took all ...
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New system drive boots fine but issues with Win7 backup, etc
I've decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas about this before I go any further.
Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a ...
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Modified system reserved partition but now no boot device found error(code:0xc000021a) on dual boot system(Windows 10 & Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
I actually tried to modify the system reserved partition size so that the recent windows update can be installed without error on my hp 15ac122tu machine which is i3 5th gen.
I tried to modify the ...
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Move Win7 partition to another disk
I have a problem: my HP Stream has a 32GB built-in drive, and the software updates to Win7 need more space :-(
The partitions on the 32GB drive are:
EFI
MS protected
Win7
Windows recovery
I have a ...
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Windows 10: Controlling Where the Reserved Partition is Created
I have 2 drives:
2 TB OS
2 TB Data
To my understanding what I need to do, is to create a 2 TB partition for the entire Data drive, create a 1 TB partition for the OS drive, and then Windows ...
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How are system events connected to the System Reserved Partition recorded so that failures get logged?
I've been reading up on the System Reserved Partition and understand that it holds all the boot required items for a Windows PC to start. I am trying to understand how its interaction with the main OS ...
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Move MSR partition?
My system currently has the following partitions:
As shown, there are two recovery partitions. Running reagentc /info (as suggested here) shows that sdb5 is the one actually being used.
I would like ...
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Determine which disk partitions are used by Windows 10
After removing a quad-boot from my laptop and leaving only Windows 10, I'm left with 9 partitions between 2 disks.
I can identify the primary Windows 10 partition, the EFI, and OEM partitions.
How ...
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Can I assign a letter to or hide stuff in the System Reserved partition safely?
EDIT: You know what?? I found out that the System Reserved partition is just as fragile as the system32 folder; do ANYTHING AT ALL to it and Windows becomes unbootable. I'll just shrink my E: ...
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System Reserved Partition on wrong drive
I have installed Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 a couple of time on my machine. Now I have Windows 10 on my SSD and my data on HDD.
Windows is functioning fine but I see there's a "System Reserved" partition ...
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Can I move all files of a user to a USB drive in Windows 10?
How?
Would junction points be a good technique?
The purpose is to free space for upgrade, so obviously the setup would have to survive the upgrade
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What is the mount point for reserve space
While reinstalling Ubuntu 17.10, found a 767MB of ext4 partition along side 536MB EFI and 248GB Encrypted LVM partition.
After reading few articles I figure that the 767MB space is reserved space for ...
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How do I check if I have an EFI partition on my computer?
I know how to look up the partitions on my system using Disk Management and diskpart in the command line. But how can I tell if I have an EFI partition? I am using Windows 7 and I see there is a 100 ...
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Accidentally used mkfs.ext4 on Microsoft Reserved Partition while installing Arch Linux
The title says all. Windows still boots, but I'm afraid of any future errors. How to fix this?
Operating System:Windows 8.1
Below is the output of parted print if it's helpful.
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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How to properly install linux on Sony Vaio?
TL;DR At Bottom.
I'm planning on "blowing up" my Vaio once I graduate (uni) and switch to a Linux distro.
At first, I thought I be would OK with just overwritting the entire drive, but after some ...
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Two System Reserved partitions
I have 2 drives, SSD and HDD.
At the SSD:
I have 2 partitions, one with Windows (10 Creators last update), and the other one with System Reserved (500 MB NTFS).
At Diskmagement, this System Reserved ...
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How do I reset my Laptop to factory settings
I have a sony vaio and I need to reset it to factory defaults - pretty much a format. However "F10" or "ALt + F10" on start up do not work. I suspect the factory partition has been lost somehow.
The ...
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Windows 10 recovery drive - is this full windows installation? How many recovery partitions can I delete? (i have three - .5gb, 12gb, 1.1gb)
Update: oh, yes, the goal is to clean as much space as possible so I can install arch.
Recovery Drive
The first thing I did when I got my XPS is create a windows 10 recovery drive - 16gb usb drive.
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When removing all Windows partitions, do I run into problems when reinstalling Windows in future?
The Thinkpad T460 I got from my company came with Windows 10 preinstalled. However, my team is working in GNU/Linux exclusively. I would like to totaly remove all the Windows partitions so I can make ...
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Repair Windows 8.1 UEFI booting messed up by Easus Partition Manager? Error Code: 0xc0000225
Laptop Toshiba Satellite (Model will post but not super critical as the info posted below).
Pre-Installed OS: Windows 8.1 Bing as C: Drive
Default booting is/ was UEFI
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My SSD Drive has two partitons System at 125gb and C using the rest. Is 125 too large?
My SSD drive (added after windows 10) has two partitions. One is the System partition of 125gb Healthy (system, Active, primary partition) and a second "Windows" C Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump,...
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How to enlarge Windows 10 EFI partition
My system currently has this partition setup:
I would like to enlarge /dev/sdb2, the EFI System Partition, to 500MB.
The problem is that I do not want to delete the Windows Recovery Partition (/dev/...
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Move and grow partition
I have a disk containing
a bunch of free space in the front (111GB)
then a "System Reserved" partition (350 MB)
and then a partition that Windows maps to my C drive, which is my system drive.
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Recovery partition at the middle of disk
I own a Samsung laptop, which came with Windows 8 preinstalled, it was updated to Windows 10. Then I installed Ubuntu, to do it I created 4 partitions, swap, boot, root, and home.
But linux ran out of ...
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Partitionning : is it ok to put my OS at the end of my disk?
I've build a small HTPC; and I have a 2TB HDD in it.
The idea is to store only medias on that drive, and to have a separate M.2 SSD drive for the OS.
BUT those SSD still are expensive, and i'll wait ...
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How to partition hard disk after windows 7 installed
I have installed windows 7 andjust i need to do partition of hard disk in three drive.
Please tell me process to partition hard disk without re-formating window.
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System could not allocate the required space in a registry log
I'm getting an error System could not allocate the required space in a registry log while installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on a Windows 8.1 machine.
I checked hard disk space and it's ...
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If I make a copy of a system partition, can I safely delete the original?
I want to merge 2 non-adjacent partitions. Since partitions need to be adjacent to be merged with disk partitioning tools, I plan to create a copy of the partition that is in between the ones I want ...
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When is WinRE Partition created on Windows 10 upgrade?
When we upgrade Windows 8.1 systems (UEFI) to Windows 10, we see a 450 MB Recovery Partition is created from the OS partition.
On searching further, we figured this is the new WinRE partition created ...
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How to copy Microsoft Reserved Partition partition from hard disk drive to SSD using GParted?
I’m using GParted to clone all data from HDD to SSD on each Workstation in our Company.
I got two problems there:
How do I copy the Microsoft Reserved Partition? GParted marks this as unknown (which ...
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Is MSR partition required on secondary GPT drives?
I accidentally managed to delete MSR partition on one of my (3TB - GPT) data storage drives during Windows installation. Windows still sees the drive and all files inside. I backed up everything just ...
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What is the difference between primary and system partition
I was trying to update my system to windows 8, now at partition selection window it shows,
partition 0 as system partition and my three other partitions as primary partitions
when I select one of my ...
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How To Defrag Windows 8 System Reserved Partition
Today I was cleaning up my computer and stuff and when I was defraging my partitions I saw that the System Reserved partition is 100% fragmented.
So I tried to defrag it, but it doesn't seems to work,...
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Move Windows bootloader to another disk
So i am planing on copying my C: drive to an SSD however my bootloader is on a secondary hard drive somehow. I have used the bootrec function with no luck. Any ideas?
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format windows recovery partition in hard drive externally
I want to format a disk from my other laptop. I have an external drive reader and when I attempt to format the disk, it only formats the main partition but the recovery sector remains intact. I am ...
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What is System Reserved partition for? [duplicate]
As you might know, I was going to reinstall windows. But on the step "Choose a Physical Location to Install Windows On" I faced this 100MB partition. What is it for? Should I delete it or leave it as ...
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