[REQUEST] Creating Windows 7 System Reserved Partition

[Cambridge PC Support]

Bit of a shot in the dark, but I've got this Windows 7 machine that I'm supposed to be doing an SSD upgrade and Windows 10 upgrade on. I've cloned to SSD fine, but when it comes to upgrading to Windows 10 it complains that it can't update the System Reserved Partition. It doesn't appear to actually have one, and I'm struggling to create one. Anyone come across this before?

 

[MM PC Solutions]

I do it a different way. I clone current hdd (just in case), then upgrade hdd to Win10 then clone to ssd with minitool partition magic.
Never once had an error that way.

 

[Porthos]

https://www.partitionwizard.com/par...couldnt-update-system-reserved-partition.html

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Thanks chaps. The problem is that there isn't a System Reserved Partition

 

[LordIntruder]

didn't read the article full, but maybe it's helpful for you:
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/119151-system-reserved-create-using-disk-management.html

 

[NviGate Systems]

If you can shrink the main partition by 100MB, you can create one using diskpart. You need to ensure the free space is at the beginning I believe.

Once the space is there, in disk management create a new partition, primary. Format NTFS.

Open diskpart and select the new partition, make it active , assign a letter.

Then exit diskpart and run bcdboot to add the correct boot files for Windows to start.

Usually it's something like:

bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /f BIOS

Where Z is your system reserved.

Then fire up diskpart one last time and select the system reserved part and be sure to "set id=27".

This hides the part from appearing in explorer. Don't want people looking there.