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No System Reserved Partition help?
Last edited by anandbb; 19 Jan 2020 at 02:59.
Do you know that you definitely had one? Presumably if your Windows is booting, all is basically well.
Windows can be installed without creating one at all: see the end of this:
What is the System Reserved or EFI Partition in Windows?
Has it been removed?
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Looking at your disk management screen shot. Your C drive is marked as System, Boot, Active... Meaning Windows Boot Manager is in your C: drive.
A normal Windows installation with your disk setup as unallocated then Windows will create a System Reserved partition and put the Boot Manager and Windows Recovery (WinRe.wim for disgnostic, troubleshooting). In addition, if you use Bitlocker then you'll need the System Reserved present. If you have no problem running Windows then you shoudn't worry about it. However, if it bothers you, you can easily move the Boot Manager to the 500 unallocated partition.
- Create a simple NTFS for this unallocated partition, format and assign a Letter to it. let's assume Letter Z is assigned.
- Open admin command prompt and type: bcdboot C:\Windows /s Z: /f BIOS
The above command will mark Z: drive as active and move the Boot Manager there. Once done, remove the letter Z: and label it as: System Reserved.
Last edited by anandbb; 19 Jan 2020 at 08:26.
Yes. The easiest is to download the portable, free DiskGenius:Free Download DiskGenius OnlineIs it possible that system reserved partition is somehow merged with c drive?
Run it and Since this is Windows partition, you might not be able to run online, click on the File menu to boot into WinPE enviroment.
Right click on the 500MB unallocated space, select Allocate free space To -> then select C: drive. click on Save All then reboot.