No system reserved partition


  1. Posts : 4
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       #1

    No system reserved partition


    Installed a Samsung SSD on my Asus CM6730-06 desktop running Win7. the Win7 OS was cloned from the Asus Pc to Samsung SSD. Windows 7 runs great off the SSD. Got a Windows 10 upgrade notice and received an automatic download of Win10 but when it tries to install I get the message "Windows 10 couldn't be installed". "We couldn't update the system reserved partition". I would like some help to upgrade to Win10 on this pc. Thank you
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    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
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    Post a snapshot of a fullscreen Disk Management Window:
    To open Disk Management, press Windows key+r, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter or click GO. Make it full screen. Expand the fields as necessary so everything can be seen.

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  3. Posts : 3
    windows 7
       #3

    installing with no system partition?


    I think I have some similar problem, windows 7 update says "windows 10 couldn't be installed" with error: 80070006-2000C.
    I'm pretty sure its a system partition related problem based on what meager info I could turn up.
    After checking it turns out that I don't have a system reserved partition; the primary partition has the system and boot files - could this be a problem? It's factory installed Asus n53jq , apparently they decided to put everything in the main partition, possibly that's causing a problem.
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  4. Posts : 18,421
    Windows 11 Pro
       #4

    You can try using MiniTool partition wizard to shrink your main partition, leave 600 mb free in front of it. That should give Windows 10 plenty of room to create a recovery partition. Not sure if it will create the recovery partitions on an upgrade though.

    You might have to do a clean install of Windows 10 (skip any time that it asks for a product key), deleting all the partitions on your hard drive first - that will definitely create the recovery partitions - but it won't activate. Then you would do a clean install of Windows 7, just select the big, main partition as the install location - don't delete partitions. You do have a Windows 7 product key? That should leave the needed recovery partitions intact. When Windows 7 activates, you can upgrade it to Windows 10.

    Of course any clean install will erase all your programs and data.
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  5. Posts : 3
    windows 7
       #5

    NavyLCDR said:
    You can try using MiniTool partition wizard to shrink your main partition, leave 600 mb free in front of it. That should give Windows 10 plenty of room to create a recovery partition. Not sure if it will create the recovery partitions on an upgrade though.

    You might have to do a clean install of Windows 10 (skip any time that it asks for a product key), deleting all the partitions on your hard drive first - that will definitely create the recovery partitions - but it won't activate. Then you would do a clean install of Windows 7, just select the big, main partition as the install location - don't delete partitions. You do have a Windows 7 product key? That should leave the needed recovery partitions intact. When Windows 7 activates, you can upgrade it to Windows 10.

    Of course any clean install will erase all your programs and data.
    Thanks, can anyone advise if leaving some empty space will work?I'm a little leery of crashing my system, I don't really have time for that right now. or is there a way to manually create a system reserved partition by copying the boot folders over and making it active?

    the clean install is a route I would prefer not to go; I have a ton of software installed, but if I must it would be a good chance to upgrade to an ssd.
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  6. Posts : 3
    windows 7
       #6

    manually creating system partition


    so if in understand this post right:System Reserved : Create Using Disk Management - Windows 7 Help Forums

    I can create a new partition, name it "System Reserved", set it as active, and then run boot repair 3 times.I should then have a valid system reserved partition to upgrade to Win 10?
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  7. Posts : 40
    Windows 10, Mint 17.2
       #7

    On my system, a clean install of Windows 10 Pro from a retail distribution media (not the upgrade) I have four partitions, Recovery (450Mb), System (100 Mb), Reserved (16Mb) and Primary (the rest of the drive).

    The reserved partition does not show in diskmgmt.msc, but I can see it using the "list part" command in diskpart.exe
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  8. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home
       #8

    Were you able to resolve this by creating a new system reserved partition? I have almost exactly the same issue. I have a Vaio laptop and migrated my Win 7 install to an SSD, which left me with no system reserved partition. I used the instructions linked in this thread to create a new system reserved partition, but I'm still getting the same 'Couldn't Update the System Reserved Partition' error. Anyone know if there is something else I can do to get the upgrade to work? I really don't want to do a fresh install of Win 7 (assuming that would work)? My dismgmt screenshot is below.


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  9. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #9

    Strange, you shouldn`t need a SR partition to do an upgrade.

    Attachment 32696

    Did the Windows 7 install drive have a SR partition ?
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  10. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home
       #10

    AddRAM said:
    Strange, you shouldn`t need a SR partition to do an upgrade.

    Attachment 32696

    Did the Windows 7 install drive have a SR partition ?
    Not sure. After I migrated to the SSD, I wiped the old drive to fill it with movies/music/pictures.
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