Windows 10: Moving the System Reserved Partition to another disc so that i can install a new M.2...

HelloIn order to replace my 250gb M.2 ssd with a new 1tb m.2 ssd i believe that i need to move the System Reserved partition onto another disc. Unfortunately after follwing some youtube tutorials i have been unsuccessful. Any help appreciated The problem i am facing is No boot when this 250gb drive is removed. I have tried creating a new partition on another drive, then adding a letter to the System reserved partition & copying the files over but BCD fails to move ovsr as it is open in System. The idea was to remove the letter after, name the new partition system reserved and remove this l

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Move System Reserved Partition Windows 10

Prelude

I recently chose to migrate from the 1Tb spinning disk to a 128Gb m.2 + 1Tb HDD, with OS & programs installed on the m.2 and data on the HDD.

I didn't have time to do this as a dedicated task, so needed to keep the previous Windows 10 Pro installation on the old drive to use while I got the new OS set up in my spare time. Coincidentally the previous installation was 32-bit, whereas the new one is 64-bit. This all went off without a hitch, I ran both OS in parallel, got the new one set up and configured, and decided that I'm ready to delete the old installation and clean the 1Tb drive so that it's ready to become a data drive.

Unfortunately I then discovered the System Reserved Partition on the HDD.

Current state

Currently my drives are partitioned like so:

• Disk 0: [500mb System Reserved] [931Gb NTFS; old OS]
  
• Disk 1: [119Gb NTFS Bitlocker Encrypted; new OS]
  
• Disk 2: [14.91 OEM Partition]
  

Disk 2 is another m.2 which was included with the machine as a cache drive.

I want to move the System Reserved partition off the 1Tb drive, partly for neatness and to allow me to swap-out the data drive if desired, and partly for boot speed (by putting it on an m.2). Since the cache drive software for Disk 2 is incompatible with Bitlocker, and since I'm running most functions from an m.2 anyway, I'm perfectly happy to format Disk 2 - it seems like a prime candidate for the System Reserved partition. Especially as I would rather not mess around with resizing the Bitlocker-encrypted partition.

My question

So, my question is:

Given that the System Reserved partition is very important (my main OS is currently encrypted, but could be decrypted for this process if necessary); and I don't want to go through another clean install if at all possible...

Is it possible to simply move the System Reserved partition in place to the small m.2, and completely clean the HDD? Would moving it like that affect boot and/or Bitlocker? If so, what is the best way to accomplish it - would I need to disconnect the HDD and repair the installation or something like that? Would I need to decrypt first?

Thank you!

 

Need to move/fix location of System Reserved partition

Lothar,

You will do multiple steps with Partition Wizard Free:

1. Shrink C: drive partition by 100 gb with the 100gb free at the end of it.
2. "Resize/move" system reserved partition by removing all the free space in front of it (which should be 100gb after step 1), add the same free space to the end of it.
3. Expand the F: drive partition into the 100gb free space which should now be at the front of it after step 2.

 

Move system partition to system reserve partition

I had just install a new m.2 NVMe card yesterday and had cloned my primary drive over to the m.2. It was working wonderfully and was booting up okay then I had decided to clear the original primary drive. I had then tried updating windows from settings and when it tried to boot up I got an error saying bootmgr was missing. I had reinstalled windows with the media creation tool back onto the original drive after it wouldn't let me install onto the m.2. I now boot from the original drive then it goes to a screen saying there are two volumes that retain a copy of windows. I select the first one and I notice Its running from my m.2 as per the image. It shows boot and is the C: drive but the other disk that i boot from still says system in the partition.

I would like to know how I can safely move the system partition over to my m.2 and boot from it without it asking for a volume to select when starting. Please and thank you!