Windows 10: System Reserved on drive other than C.

Hi all,


Just installed windows from a usb on to a computer I just built and was just about to stripe two drives together, however one of the drives has a System Reserved partition so I cannot do this.


Why did the partition go to that drive and not my C drive?

Can I move the partition to another drive?


If not I dont mind re-installing windows if that is the way to fix it, but how do i stop it happening again? do i remove all other drives apart from my primary drive?


Thanks for your time.

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System Reserved on C: Drive 500MB

I did a clean install of Windows 10 and it is activated. At first I don't recall seeing this reserved space, and I thin it occurred after I created a restore point. Anyway, I deleted the restore point and still have the System Reserved 500 MB, Free Space
176 MB. This is all on Drive C which is my main drive where Windows 10 is installed.

Why is it there and could I delete it?

 

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 & Reserved almost full?

Thank you for the information and posting back.

High System & Reserved memory usage could be due to the following:

• High Windows.old file(s) size
• Large cache of trace files size
• Windows 10 system file issues

We would like to know some information to better isolate the issue:

• Do you have a C:\windows.old folder on your C: drive?
• Which Windows version and build are you using? Type winver on search box and press
  Enter.
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Can you post a screenshot of what is inside the System & reserved storage? Double-click System & reserved. See picture below for reference.

We will wait for your response.