What is a system reserved drive?

ray168 · 20 Oct 2011 at 15:54

i seem to have another partition drive called system reserved which comes from my main windows hard drive and can be seen along with my other hard drives, its only 99.9mb... anyone know why i have this? and how to i get rid off?
Thanks.

Surveyor · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:19

If you get rid of it likely your system won't boot.

I believe it contains the Boot Manager and is required for your system to function.

Jay794 · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:25

Isn't boot manager on C drive? System Reserved is a backup drive isn't it?

V_R · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:29

Surveyor said:
If you get rid of it likely your system won't boot.

I believe it contains the Boot Manager and is required for your system to function.

That is what my understanding of it is.

Anyway its tiny, does it really matter?

Surveyor · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:38

I think the the Boot Manager can end up on any drive depending what you had connected when you installed Windows.

If you only had 1 drive connected then the Boot Manager and the operating system will both be put on it.

If you have 2 or more drives connected then the Boot Manager may end up on a different drive than the operating system.

That's my understanding and why, especially with SSD's, it's recommended that the only drive that's connected when installing the operating system is the boot drive.

ray168 · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:50

I am using 2 windows os hard drives the main one is on 120gb SSD and 2nd hard drive used for gaming. Not really a problem... just not sure why i had this always showing on my ssd windows.

DragonQ · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:23

Leave it alone, it's where your boot files are located. They are kept separate to your main root drive (C

and hidden for safety.

trisonetwo · 20 Oct 2011 at 18:16

I deleted mine when I installed Windows and I'm having no problems.

I believe from research it contains space for the Win7 BitLocker stuff and is also used as a backup boot drive. I decided I didn't want this as I'm usually pretty good at recovering stuff when it goes wrong.

I think theres a guide on google to delete it during Win7 install - something like delete the main partition, and then expand the reserved one to be the main one?

Worth googling if you don't want it like I did.

trisonetwo · 20 Oct 2011 at 18:19

http://www.mydigitallife.info/hack-...reserved-partition-when-installing-windows-7/

Method 3.

Alernatively you can always hide it. But I've been running fine without it.

ray168 · 20 Oct 2011 at 18:22

ah thats great, thanks for the link.

trisonetwo · 20 Oct 2011 at 18:25

See how you go with it - obviously if you start getting problems, just install as normal and hide the bugger.

V_R · 20 Oct 2011 at 21:54

Why are you honestly worried about a poxy little 100mb partition that the OS created, obviously for a reason, anyway?

Levirginien · 20 Oct 2011 at 22:47

V_R said:
Why are you honestly worried about a poxy little 100mb partition that the OS created, obviously for a reason, anyway?

+1 You said it all really!

Jay794 · 21 Oct 2011 at 10:57

I get what he's saying, it's like the whole thing about hiding empty drives, People like their system to look a certain way e.g. I prefer to only have 8 icons on my desktop as I think if I had more it would look too cluttered

Wiry · 21 Oct 2011 at 11:08

I wouldn't bother touching it lol, it's 100mb, besides you wouldn't want to **** your system up by messing around with it, I'd leave it alone if I was you.

yashiro · 21 Oct 2011 at 11:42

It's nothing to do with booting your machine. It's used by admin tools and bitlocker encryption. Leave it alone.