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.

Hi,

It's the Recovery partition that should be at the end really.
Make a full system using MR first.
Using diskpart to delete the old Recovery partition then Macrium Reflect to restore the imaged partition where you want them.

Cheers,

fdegrove said:

Hi,

It's the Recovery partition that should be at the end really.
Make a full system using MR first.
Using diskpart to delete the old Recovery partition then Macrium Reflect to restore the imaged partition where you want them.

Cheers,

With a terabyte of data and scores of applications, I'm not ready to clear off the HD and start over unless I must.

Have we verified that it is a recovery partition that is desired and not the actual System Reserved partition? A new System Reserved partition is easy. Instead of creating a new recovery partition, I would just enable Windows Recovery Environment in the C: drive OS partition and forget about a separate Recovery Partition. Here is my recovery environment:

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

    Windows RE status:         Enabled
    Windows RE location:       \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 79d84e9a-b33e-11eb-91df-3413e83d466c
    Recovery image location:
    Recovery image index:      0
    Custom image location:
    Custom image index:        0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.


C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.22000.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: JOHN-LAPTOP

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> select part 4

Partition 4 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail part

Partition 4
Type    : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
Hidden  : No
Required: No
Attrib  : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 443390361600

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
* Volume 1     C   Windows 11   NTFS   Partition     64 GB  Healthy    Boot

DISKPART>

I have no separate recovery partition on disk 0, I believe it is useless to do so.

If Windows 10 installed HDD missing a EFI System Reserved partition, you can create one by following below instructions.

Please boot your computer with Windows Installation Media and from Windows Recovery Environment start the Command Prompt.

From Command Prompt execute below commands one at a time:

Code:

Diskpart

List Disk 

Select Disk 0

List Partition

Select Partition X

Shrink desired=100

Create Partition EFI

FORMAT FS=FAT32 LABEL="ESP"

Assign Letter=W

Exit

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

Use "List Disk" command to find out disk number assign to Windows 10 installed drive.

Replace number 0 zero with disk number assign to Windows 10 installed drive

Use "List Partition" command to find out Windows 10 installed partition assigned number.

Replace X letter with Windows 10 installed partition assigned number.

You may need to replace C: drive letter with Windows 10 installed partition drive letter.

I have to warn you Diskpart tool is very dangers, so please make sure to execute Diskpart command carefully.

What problems are you having with the disk drive that you want to modify the partition layout?

Are you having a failure to upgrade the system reserved partition?

This can be fixed either by removing unneeded files or expanding the reserved partition.

The Windows upgrade failure files typically indicates the insufficiency.

Most often this is < 15 MB.



These links have images of the default layout for drives that are Legacy / MBR and UEFI / GPT:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ive-partitions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...%20Environment.



Run:

V2: BSOD - Posting Instructions

Tuneup.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.

DiskParInfo.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.

Upgrade_failure_info.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.


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