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how to make a new System Reserved partition at the end of my HD
No word for 24 hours on how to make a new System Reserved partition at the end of my HD. Macrium Reflect is great and obviously can save an image of any partition anywhere on your system that has enough room for the file, but it can't see NAS and I don't see a way to save an entire HD or do a rolling backup. I'm keeping Acronis; Macrium Reflect is a vast supplement to Acronis, so I'm keeping it too.
I suppose that I could boot to my new Rescue Media on thumb drive, use diskpart to shrink the data partition by 2 GB or so (is that enough?), then make that new free space my new System Reserved partition using system commands shown in previous messages on this thread.
But, I've seen hints that Microsoft is looking at ways to solve my problem, which is apparently fairly common. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to block out a procedure: if insufficient space is seen in the System Reserved partition, scratch on free space somewhere else on the system (I've seen Windows Update doing just that on my system). If there is enough space, but the System Reserved partition seems to have space-filling junk, clean it out and reinitialize it with the minimum of files needed to support the update, then put it back as it should be when the update is ending.