Windows 10: why is "System & Reserved" reported size much larger than volume?

context: I have a netbook that came with 32-bit Win 7 Starter edition. I've dutifully updated it to Win 10 1803 and am having trouble with further updates


The C: partition is about 50GiB. About 10GiB is free. The disk is partitioned using MBR I don't think that the firmware supports UEFI.


Settings: Storage: This PC C: says that I have 114 GiB.

"System & reserved" is 84.6 GiB.


How can this be larger than the C: volume on which it resides?


I've not installed many things on this system. Why would System & reserved be so large? I have other little-modified Windows 10 installations that take much less space than 84.6 GiB.


Perhaps I've enabled some file-system compression setting that I no longer remember. Is there a way of finding out?

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How to increase the System Reserved Partition size

Thanks for detailed information. I may be wrong about 350 MB System Reserved Partition. I only wanted to increase the System Reserved Partition size because Windows backup was failing and as you all are suggesting to use Macrium for backup then why to go for increasing the System Reserve Partition (but I will give a try as taught by you). Please make one more thing clear that while replying to a post, Do I need to Quote the full message of the member. Secondly why my System Reserved Partition is assigned a Drive letter by default.

 

Screen size is larger than monitor

Hello,

Got a new monitor and the text is extremely small for me. ACER manufacturer recommends that settings for the size of text and apps be left at 100%, plus the Resolution at 1920 x 1080.

Since my eyesight is not that good, I opted to increase the size of text just to 125% and then asked to reboot computer. After the restart, the text had considerably gotten better, but the desktop icons got larger, half of the size of the icons were off the
screen on left-hand side. Lastly, the Start Menu button disappeared. Tried to get back the screen to normal, but still is larger than the monitor, also the Start Menu button disappeared. Checked for a magnifier on the screen and closed it.

(I know I can get settings through the action center, but can not get other tiles like photos, games, etc.)

Checked for drivers and they are all up-to-date.

Again, these are the issues:

1) Screen larger than monitor. Can not see anything on the left-hand side, having to snap each time to reduce their size has become a nuisance. Have tried different steps to reduce screen size to fit the monitor but it just is not working.

2) Lost “Start Menu Button”, because screen is too large.

3) Text is gone back to 100% and it's too small.

4) Desktop icons on task bar are also extremely small.

I would appreciate someone's help.

Thank you.

Ed

 

Files sizes for photos and videos showing as much larger than actual. Can't open/transfer.

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand that you are unable to view the picture and video files transferred from your phone to PC, and the folder size is larger than expected. We will certainly look into this for you. In order to get clarity and to assist
you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• What is the Version and Build of Windows 10 installed? (Type winver in Windows search/Run command)
• What is the make and model of the PC?
• How were the files transferred? (Is it through File Explorer or Photos App)
• Does the same issue occur for a newly clicked images that are transferred?

Please help us with the above information for further investigation and provide you the correct troubleshooting suggestion.



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator