Windows 10: Increasing system partition to accomodate windows 10 update

Hi,
I'm trying to increase the System Reserved partition to accommodate the anniversary update of windows 10 but in between the OS partition and the System Reserved partition is another 128mb partition that I cannot label or resize, its full. So I can't add the space I've taken from the OS partition to the System Reserved partition. Does anyone know what the 128mb partition is? I thought about taking space from the Win RE tools partition but I don't really know how big this needs to be or how big the System Reserved partition needs to be to accommodate the update. I was going to make it 500mb.

Any ideas?





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Windows 10 Update

You need to increase the size of 100 MB recovery partition. A freeware should do this for you:

Fix "We Couldn’t Update the System Reserved Partition" Error

 

Windows 10 updates

Hi Peter,

This error indicates that the device on which the update is being applied doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for the update to be installed. This could mean that the CPU speed or available RAM or free disk space aren’t good enough for the update.

System partition is a space on the hard disk that is always kept free for moving files during installations. In some cases, the system partition can become full of old log files, but the update can’t clean it because it doesn’t have enough system permissions
to do so.

To increase the size of the system partition, we suggest that you use Disk Management. Disk Management has the ability to shrink volume and extend volume. In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the system partition that you want to extend, and
select Extend Volume from the menu. Then specify the amount that you want to increase the partition size. Using Disk Management to extend Windows 10 system partition, there must be contiguous space behind Windows 10 system partition, otherwise,
you cannot extend system partition.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

I don't see any reason why you couldn't move the EFI system partition to the 401mb unallocated space after the infamous 128 MB Microsoft Reserved partition. Nothing requires the EFI system partition to be in any particular spot on the hard drive.

P.S. - I've got 6 Windows 10 computers at my house with UEFI and GPT disks running just fine without that 128MB MSR partition. It's not 100% full. It's 100% unusable - that is what MiniTool is reporting.

 

The partition program won't increase the size though so I assumed it would to be next to the allocated space on the drive map?

 

It won't increase the size of it until you move it to the 401mb unallocated space. Then you can increase the size to 401MB once it is moved into that space.

 

You can read more here:
https://www.partitionwizard.com/part...partition.html

Down about half-way read here:
Enlarge ESP Partition Under UEFI + GPT Boot Mode...

 

Kudos to you! I've been reading a lot of conflicting info about deleting the 128mb partition and that seems to have worked!

Thanks for your swift help *Smile

 

No problem . And for those who swear the MSR partition is 100% required on every GPT disk (because MS says so) - please note that I did not advise r4dly to delete it. I only posted a link to an article and stated the fact that I have 6 computers running just fine without it.

 

Lol, I take full responsibility for my actions. I've been trying to get an answer from the MS forum for weeks and just go around in circles, they are very unhelpful.