Windows 10 November Update 1511 and system reserved issues

[scovilletech]

Hi,

I am trying to update Windows 10 to the build 1511 update that came out in November. It says that it cannot update the system reserved partition. I researched this and it appears that it is due to the reserved only being 100 MB in size and that it is out of space. It mentions using a partition tool to move the C: partition and giving more space to the reserved partition (at least 350 MB). However, when I do this, Windows fails to boot saying that it cannot find some file in system32. No matter what I do, it will not boot until I resize that reserved partition back to 100 MB. Any help on this would be awesome! Thanks.

 

[nlinecomputers]

What are you using to resize it?

 

[scovilletech]

I've tried the Mini tool recommended in many of the posts about it as well as GParted.

 

[Metanis]

Just throwing this out there... shrink the regular C: partition first while leaving the reclaimed space unassigned. Try to boot and if necessary run a boot repair. Once it's booting again then expand the Reserved partition to grab the space.

Or another time-consuming idea is to clone each partition off the source to a spare drive. Resize all the partitions on the source and then clone back.

 

[nlinecomputers]

EaseUS might work better or Paragon for this.

 

[HankArnold]

Why not just ignore the message? I don't recall ever seeing it (2 Dells and a Surface 4 Pro). I have no clue why one would want it "updated".

 

[nlinecomputers]

Why not just ignore the message? I don't recall ever seeing it (2 Dells and a Surface 4 Pro). I have no clue why one would want it "updated".

I don't think you have understood the problem...

 

[HankArnold]

I don't think you have understood the problem...

So, help me understand.

 

[nlinecomputers]

He can't ignore the error. It's preventing him from upgrading to Windows 10 which is his desired goal.

 

[HankArnold]

I guess the question is why the upgrade wants to update the "system reserved" partition. I've upgraded a dozen computers and haven't seen this.

 

[nlinecomputers]

The boot files and bitlocker executable is stored there. Windows always updates this or creates this on windows systems.

http://www.howtogeek.com/192772/what-is-the-system-reserved-partition-and-can-you-delete-it/

 

[HankArnold]

OK. I just looked at my Surface 4 Pro and I have:

EFI System Partition 260 MB
Recovery Partition 830 MB
Boot Partition 237 GB