Windows 10: cloned OS drive "System Reserved" partition Not 100% aftewrwards.

Hi,I cloned my OS drive twice to move to a newer hardware. But the last time, it seems the "System Reserved" partition of the drive had some issues. 1st: it is not showing "System Reserved" on that partition. 2nd: the following attributes "system, Active, MBR" are not on it and shows only "Primary". My PC still boots up, but the whole purpose of this exercise was to get compatible to install Windows 11 and upgrade the OS drive with new and faster hardware. My questions are: Is there anything I can do to fix it other than re-installing the OS? Is this going to caus

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Systeme reserved and OS partition

Hello MADOUR,

My name is Nada I'm here to help you.

I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue, and I will try my best to assist you.

Since you use a third party. I only recommend trying another third-party clone image software as you said the system reserve and the OS file are in 1 partition. It might be in a different partition so you can run the system smoothly

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/trueimage...

In this partition, you can copy as is what in your old drive to the new drive.

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Recovery Partition vs System Reserved Partition

Thanks for all the info guys.

Both original & target SSD's are listed as MBR as opposed to UEFI. I may have created a partition unknowingly in getting the original/new unformatted drive recognized, but I don't recall taking any steps that Windows did not step me through.

Not that an upgrade to WIN 10 Pro is contemplated, but I suspect that having no System Reserved partition will not allow that to happen, after seeing how the original WIN 10 upgrade created a problem for some WIN 7 users that had a smaller 100mb vs 500mb System Reserved partition.

 

System Reserve Partition Size Problem During Windows 10 Upgrade

I recently had a Widows 10 Insiders Preview update fail with We couldn't update the system reserved partition.
This was the first time after many successful updates. It was hard to find a clear cut solution to the problem. In my case, there was no partition named "System Reserved Partition", so I kept looking for ways to create/recreate this partition. It was
a red herring, the system reserved partition on my PC is "EFI System Partition".

After many web searches and a review of anything that might have changed on my PC I identified the problem. It turned out that there was insufficient free space in the system reserved partition to allow Windows to perform the update. Since the allocated
size of the partition was the default 100mb and hadn't been modified, I checked to see what files and directories the partition contained.

It turned out that in addition to the expected "EFI" directory, there was an additional directory named "echoboot" that was apparently installed by the cloning software I used to move to a larger hard drive. This extra directory used up enough space in
the reserved partition to cause the update failure. I tried removing the cloning software, but it didn't delete the partition. So I had to remove it manually.

These are the steps I used to correct the problem and are only applicable if a user installed disk utility (i.e. cloning, partitioning, backup software) created additional items in the system reserved partition. Before proceeding, try uninstalling any disk
utilities you may have added, reboot the PC, and retry the failed update.

This procedure may leave your computer in an unbootable state, proceed with caution

Step 1

Open a command window as administrator. In Cortana search box enter the text "command prompt", right-click on the result "Command Prompt Desktop app" and select "Run as administrator" from the context menu.

Step 2

Use the mountvol command to mount the system reserved partition so you can work with it. The syntax is 'mountvol
unused drive letter: /S, where unused drive letter is any drive letter not currently in use. For example, if the drive letter Q is available (unused) you would enter
mountvol Q: /S in the command window.

Step 3

Use the dir command to see what directories exist in the system reserved partition. Using the drive letter you assigned in the previous step, enter
dir Q:\ and examine the directory listing that appears. Look for a directory that is related to a user installed disk utility (in my case, echoboot added by the NTI Echo 3 disk cloning utility).

Step 4

Remove the directory identified in the previous step using the rmdir command. The syntax is
rmdir assigned drive letter:\directory
/s, where assigned drive letter is the drive letter assigned in Step 2 and
directory is the name of the directory related to the user installed disk utility identified in Step 3. Executing this command will remove the directory and its contents. The command, in my case, was
rmdir Q:\echoboot /s

Step 5

Dismount the System Reserved Volume using the mountvol command. The syntax is mountvol assigned drive letter: /D
where assigned drive letteris the drive letter assigned in Step 2. Again, if Q was the drive letter assigned in Step2, the command would be
mountvol Q: /D

I hope this helps.