You will not be able to move the booting files to it. If your Windows partition does not have 4K clusters (optionally) remove the System Reserved partition.īooting files must reside on a partition with a NTFS cluster size of 4K To the Windows partition, apply the necessary BCD file corrections, and The size of this partition variesĭepending on the Windows version, but is usually 100MB to 500MB.Ĭopy the Windows booting files and Windows RE (Windows 8.x/10 only) Windows SetupĬreated the System Reserved partition containing the booting files and a
NTFS partition was not specified as the destination. As a result, booting directly from the Windowsĭuring the installation of Windows, a previously created primary Windows setup created a System Reserved partition and installed theīooting files on it. Do not attempt to perform this procedure on UEFI systems where Windows is installed on a GPT drive. Who knows, perhaps not all of your installed programs in Win 7, will work correctly with Win 10 anyway.Important: This article covers removing the System Reserved partition created when installing Windows 7/8.x/10 on a MBR drive. If it were my laptop I'd take Cliff's second suggestion and do a clean install of 10, then use the 7 key to activate. IDK if trying to enlarge that partition, would (?) damage adjacent Windows files. It seems to me however, that Windows installs all its files in the same area of the drive. I don't know as to whether it would allow you to create a partition without a drive letter. There is a free tool called "Gparted", available here: I think I'd hit M$ support on the topic first, (yeah, I know, most of that is incomprehensible, (at least to me)). I have some reservations as to whether Windows will recognize unless it's named exactly correctly. I don't normally follow this sub-forum, but still, you're the first person I've seen with the issue.
What I"m not understanding is why Win 10 is not simply overwriting it. You're right though, the "system reserve" is only 100 MB on Win 7. (In other words, "everything in its path"). A (any?) Linux distro provides provision for partitioning at he time of it's installation.Įvery Windows version overwrites whichever partition on which you install it.
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