Windows 10: System Reserved area of drive requires optimisation

Message says 100% fragmented, but defrag will not start

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Microsoft Drive Optimiser says 'System Reserved' needs optimisation, yet it can't be optimised?

I have Windows 10 Pro installed on a single SSD. As most people know, Windows automatically creates a 'System Reserved' partition during installation.

When I use the Microsoft Drive Optimiser utility in Windows, it always says the 'System Reserved' partition
needs optimisation.

The problem is, when you click optimise, nothing happens.

I understand this partition most likely doesn't need optimisation, my question is -
Why show it as needing optimisation if it cant be optimised?

 

Optimise Drives - System Hard disk drive - Unable to optimise/defragment

Hello Sophie, i'm Timon and i'm glad to help you.

This is the system reserved partition.

You do not need to optimise it.

It is only accessed when recovery operations are initiated or for boot operations, and fragmentation has no significance.

I suggest you leave it alone and don't worry about that !

 

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.