Windows 10: Couldn't upgrade windows 7x64 Pro beacuse of small reserved partition.

I have problem with upgrade of windows 7. Can't do this beause reserved partion has 30MB (ACTIVE,SYSTEM), C: is Boot. First time i see such strange configuration. I can't extend reserved partition any of tools. What can i do?

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Updating Windows 10 Pro Version 1607 to Version 1703 Error/Issues

“We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error [upgrading] Windows 10

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...eserved-partition-error-installing-windows-10

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Error : we couldn't update the system reserved partition while upgrading from Windows 7 pro to Windows 10.

*Original Title: UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS 7 PRO TO WINDOWS 10

In trying to use the Icon update, I keep getting" we couldn't update the system reserved partition".

Please help.

Thanks,

Ray

 

A screenshot of disk management would really help:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

Use Minitool Partition Wizard:
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You will take 100 MB (not GB!) from the front of the partition to the right of the System Reserved Partition, and then extend the system reserved partition into the free space. Hopefully, the C: drive partition is what is to the right of the System Reserved Partition. If there is a recovery partition in the way, you will probably have to move it to the right.

 

You will use MiniTool Partition Wizard to move the left edge of the C: drive partition to the right by 100MB (not GB!), that will create 100MB of unallocated space after the System Reserved Partition, that you can then add to it. When you click Apply, MiniTool will reboot the computer and you will get a very scary looking black and white text screen - just let that finish out. Then the System Reserved Partition should be large enough for the upgrade.

 

Dear All,
Sorry for my late response. I was on holiday. Minitool, EaseUS tools, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard all of them are not able to extend partition. Only shrink.
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My plan would be to use image recovery which permits adjusting partition sizes. Like this:
Using a bootable rescue/recovery disk or USB flash from Macrium or similar make an image of your 3 partitions.
Don't image from running Windows.
Then verify/validate the image.
Then boot once more to the recovery.
Select System reserved partition and tell recovery to change its size to perhaps 1.4gig and make sure to retain Primary and Active flags. Recover it.
Then recover the Windows and your New partitions, both primary. Disconnect the recovery system and restart.
Job done.

I can't write details because I suspect the good helpers here can guide you through Macrium steps since that's the favourite imaging on this forum.
I use another imaging program and have done exactly the procedure I described on a MBR/Legacy drive several times.

One other way is to use gparted from a live Linux boot. But in either case, the Windows and New partitions have to be relocated.

 

It's much easier to just resize the existing partitions.

 

@NavyLCDR,
Resizing from the left never worked for me in Windows7. But I'm not an expert like you *Smile

 

MiniTool Partition Wizard resizes from the left very easily in Windows 7 or Windows 10. You just adjust the free space you want in front of the partition rather than the end. I'll post a screenshot when not on my phone.

 

If you opt for a "Clean install" Windows 10 software will let you delete partitions, which you then "unallocate" these will joined together to be a single large unallocated drive (or partition) and off you go.

 

How would the OP activate the clean install of Windows 10?

 

@91fw,
This is resizing from the left in Windows 7 with MiniTool. You can adjust the number in the box for "Unallocated space before" box, or click and drag the left edge of the partition.

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You have to shrink the partition next to the reserved partition by 100MB from the left (as shown in my example above, but only 100MB) before you can extend the recovery partition into the 100MB free space that will be created.

 

@NavyLCDR,
Wow. What a nice tool *Smile
The image recovery would be doing the same thing - before and after and size job, so this is a nice one step thing, though it does say backup first.

You are suggesting just 100 meg extra space to be eventually added to the Active system partition.
Is that really enough? On my ThinkPad laptop when I had had just Win7, 639 meg was used, and now dual boot with Win10 it's 640MB out of a total of 1.46 GB initially built by Lenovo. Just curious about the large size differences (superzegar has just 30) ... this might be getting OT by now.

 

130 MB total for a System Reserved partition that contains only the boot files is plenty. Anything larger than that required would be to include recovery files.