Windows 7 System reserved

Captain · 21 Feb 2015 at 14:42

I have just noticed that one of my 512GB SSD is being used as the system reserved partition, what's the best way to move this over to my ( C: ) drive so i can have my SSD back?

Cheers

Destination · 21 Feb 2015 at 14:44

The whole drive, or a very small portion of it? usually around 100MB?

Captain · 21 Feb 2015 at 14:45

Hikari Kisugi said:
The whole drive, or a very small portion of it? usually around 100MB?

It is 100MB yeah, but i don't have access to the rest of the drive.

Orcvader · 21 Feb 2015 at 16:39

Don't move it. This is where all the Windows boot files are kept. Mess around with it and you could end up not being able to boot into Windows.

But if it was from a previous install and the drive was not connected during the new installation, then you can delete the partition in disk management.

Captain · 21 Feb 2015 at 17:03

Orcvader said:
Don't move it. This is where all the Windows boot files are kept. Mess around with it and you could end up not being able to boot into Windows.

But if it was from a previous install and the drive was not connected during the new installation, then you can delete the partition in disk management.

It was there before i installed windows 7. Unless i re format and then delete the partition, have i lost the drive?

Orcvader · 21 Feb 2015 at 17:24

Was the SSD connected up to the PC during installation?

Captain · 21 Feb 2015 at 18:08

Orcvader said:
Was the SSD connected up to the PC during installation?

It was yeah.

Orcvader · 23 Feb 2015 at 11:50

Then it may not be safe to move/delete the partition, during the installation it may have picked that SSD for the boot files even if it's not where the OS is held. Only way to avoid this is to have the drive you want the OS installed on to be the only drive connected during installation, and then connect the rest once Windows is up and running.

Destination · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:49

Why don't you create a new partition in disk management, and assign it a drive letter, then you will have access to the whole drive, minus the 100MB.