Reserve System E

agoodphoto said:

I read instructions, will try to do this now

NavyLCDR said:

If you post a screenshot of disk management, we can tell you the current state of your computer:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of - Windows 10 Forums

Please be sure to widen all the columns so we can see all the information contained in them.

I sent screen shot

I want to thank everyone who has tried to help.

agoodphoto said:

I want to thank everyone who has tried to help.

I am guessing you have not shutdown/rebooted your computer since you deleted the SystemReserved Partition? It looks like you do not have a system partition remaining, which is the partition that contains the boot files that boots your computer, so it looks like that is, in fact what you deleted. A quick fix might be, right click on start icon, select Command Prompt (Admin). Run the following command in the Command Prompt window:

BCDBOOT C:\Windows /s C: /f ALL

If that completes successfully, that should set up your C: drive to also contain the boot files. Then you should be able to reboot your computer. You might have to change your bios setting to boot from the first hard disk instead of the second hard disk.

You can also just create a new partition in Disk Management in the unallocated space. You want FAT32, default allocation unit size, primary partition type. You should get a drive letter for it. Then open the command prompt (Admin) again and run:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s E: /f ALL

The drive letter in red, though, will be the drive letter assigned to the new FAT32 partition you created.

NavyLCDR said:

I am guessing you have not shutdown/rebooted your computer since you deleted the SystemReserved Partition? It looks like you do not have a system partition remaining, which is the partition that contains the boot files that boots your computer, so it looks like that is, in fact what you deleted. A quick fix might be, right click on start icon, select Command Prompt (Admin). Run the following command in the Command Prompt window:



BCDBOOT C:\Windows /s C: /f ALL

If that completes successfully, that should set up your C: drive to also contain the boot files. Then you should be able to reboot your computer. You might have to change your bios setting to boot from the first hard disk instead of the second hard disk.

You can also just create a new partition in Disk Management in the unallocated space. You want FAT32, default allocation unit size, primary partition type. You should get a drive letter for it. Then open the command prompt (Admin) again and run:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s E: /f ALL

The drive letter in red, though, will be the drive letter assigned to the new FAT32 partition you created.

Thank you NavyLCDR for the information but it sounds too complicated for me to do. I am afraid if I do anything else, I'll mess up the computer further. I have been able to shut down the computer and it does turn on again. ( Is that booting? ). I am making a copy of your instructions for later use. Most likely, I'll have to just buy another computer sooner than I had planned.

As long as the computer shuts down and restarts OK, you really don't have anything to worry about. You did not expand the informational columns above the graphical pictures of your partitions in the disk management screenshot so there might have been a system partition listed and I missed it. In disk management you are looking for two things (I have highlighted). You are looking for System and Boot. System is the partition that contains the files the computer boots (starts up) from. They tell the computer where to load the Operating System from. The partition marked as Boot is the partition that Windows loads from. Yes - if you are like me it seems like Microsoft labelled those two partitions exactly backwards.

The System partition and the Boot partition can be the same partition. As long as you see the System and the Boot inside the parenthesis somewhere indicating the function of that/those partition(s), then you are OK.

NavyLCDR said:

As long as the computer shuts down and restarts OK, you really don't have anything to worry about. You did not expand the informational columns above the graphical pictures of your partitions in the disk management screenshot so there might have been a system partition listed and I missed it. In disk management you are looking for two things (I have highlighted). You are looking for System and Boot. System is the partition that contains the files the computer boots (starts up) from. They tell the computer where to load the Operating System from. The partition marked as Boot is the partition that Windows loads from. Yes - if you are like me it seems like Microsoft labelled those two partitions exactly backwards.

The System partition and the Boot partition can be the same partition. As long as you see the System and the Boot inside the parenthesis somewhere indicating the function of that/those partition(s), then you are OK.

thanks, I appreciate your time.