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System Reserved Partition and OS Partition are two different things.
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Yes, I know that, but you don't need to have a System Reserved partition - the functionality it contains can exist on the system (OS) partition. I've been running without a system reserved partition for many many years without issue.
[Actually, in a UEFI/GPT setup like mine, the Sytem Reserved partition functionality resides in the EFI system partition. On my system, it is only half full.]
Last edited by sgage; 12 Feb 2020 at 09:16.
WU picked up the CU to Build 18363.657 on my system, but not the KB4524244 update, but the bld. 18363.657 update is a CU. I also notice that since updating to v.1903, WU runs every day right after boot up. It used to run randomly roughly every day, but long after boot up. Also, since the update to v.1903, the WU process is stopping Norton’s firewall and AV functions. After the restart W10 posts repeated messages that Norton, nor Defender, are not running. A click on the Norton desktop icon shows its functions are indeed running (Task Mgr. also verifies all is well) and the message center alerts go away.
Update: WU did an auto update on 02/13/2020 with KB4524244 sometime while the system was idle and I was away. And the message center again was reporting that there was no firewall, nor any AV running, and again Norton was indeed running and had just finished a quick scan of the system.
Last edited by jamis; 14 Feb 2020 at 08:37. Reason: Added info.
This looked like a 2 step process. IT never appeared yesterday, but when I powered the desk top this AM, there it was. I noticed on my other 2 systems, it required a restart to get the second KB (KB4524244).
Same here, un-paused the updates earlier today and got the whole lot installed.
One could even argue that this chappy has been deployed silently...!
i have credential guard enabled on my machine, not sure why having it enabled would require two restarts but no restarts for systems with credential guard turned off.
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I have run windows both with and and without the reserved partition (assuming we are talking about the partition where the winRE files are stored). at one point I might have agreed with you about not needing the reserved partition. However, I have learned the error of my ways. the reserved partition, and the files there exist for cases when there is an error (with luck, a recoverable one) with the OS partition that won't even allow a windows safemode (or command line) boot. having the winre on a separate partition means you can still (possibly) recover your OS without resorting to a clean install or factory restore. I assume MS did this since you can not run windows setup repair with out having to actually be in a working copy of windows. back in the XP/9x days if you could not get windows to boot, you could drop to the command line and run setup to repair your windows install. you would just press the 'R' key once windows setup detected that you already had windows installed.
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so the update installed, no errors as far as i can tell. windows did reboot twice because of activated credential guard, as far as i can tell, no differences in how windows boots, or in operation of windows it self
Last edited by Cybot; 12 Feb 2020 at 20:02. Reason: update
I have no WinRE environment. It is evidently not required.
Code:C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Disabled Windows RE location: Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 15b0b32f-7b08-11e9-974d-aa0e89570925 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Not sure what you mean by 'In fact there are more than one System reserved Partition.' A quick look with any partition management software shows that there are not more than one system reserved partitions. In my case, there is not even one.