Windows – resize windows 10 system reserved partition

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My Windows 10 installation uses System Reserved partition which is 100 MB (this comes to all of us, after upgrade from Windows 7).

In Windows 10 the System Reserved partition needs to be 450 MB at least.

Windows disk management, does not allow me changing that, cause I have my system partition just next to System reserved partition.

In this case I am unable to extend this partition using basic windows tools.

So how can I safely extend my System reserved partition beyond 100 MB to comply with Windows 10 requirements?

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I was able to solve it by using gparted for resizing and moving partitions. After that I used Macrium Reflect to solve Windows boot problems.

So these 2 steps although time consuming solved my original question. Both programs are absolutely free, as for now, if anybody would ask.

However, I was trying to change my partition scheme, cause windows 10 update 1709 aka Fall Creators Update was failing without any errors unfortunately. This is now solved in windows Fall creators update 1709 boot up freeze

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Windows 7 – Can the System Reserved Partition Be Deleted?

Can the Windows 7 system reserved partition be deleted without problems?

in a word, no

in addition to being used for BitLocker encryption, the system reserved partition holds the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and certain boot files.

the following files and folders are the initial content of the partition:

[$RECYCLE.BIN]
[Boot]
[System Volume Information]
bootmgr
BOOTSECT.BAK

... before BitLocker is enabled and in use.

If forcefully deleted with a third party partition manager or partition editor, the Partition Table which is (normally) located in the master boot record (MBR) may be corrupted, or may become invalid.

however, it is possible to to Prevent Windows 7 from Creating a Hidden /Recovery /System Reserved Partition during Installation.

Windows – Drive Letter assigned to system reserved partition

Fixed the issue myself. I had a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard which is what I used to remove Ubuntu and rebuild the MBR. I used that and removed the drive letter from the system reserved partition and it worked like a charm.

--------------------------------------------------HOW I DID IT -------------------------------------------------------------- Using MiniTool Partition Wizard 9,

Click On Partition
On the left side options list, there is an option called change drive letter. Click on that and set the drive letter to none.

Problem Solved

-Thor

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