System Reserved created on a secondary drive

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  1. ryuwrx
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    System Reserved created on a secondary drive


    Good evening posters.

    I'm a new member and I'm completely lost on how to fix a recent problem. My windows backup typically runs on Thursdays and last night it finished in a much shorter time than I usually expect it to. I don't know if this is related to my current problem.

    When I started my PC after coming home from work today (Friday) my computer didn't recognize my F: drive. I have three 1TB drives, C: contains my OS and is my boot drive, E: is the drive Windows does backups to, and F: contained all my personal files/folders.

    After opening the disk manager the HDD that was my F: drive is now showing as a "System Reserved" drive with no drive letter. I'm given it the former drive letter of F: and I only see 100mb of the 1tb drive with no files/folders.

    My multi-part question is as follows:
    How did Windows create this System Reserved on my F: drive when it was only a storage drive?
    How do I get rid of the System Reserved partition without losing all my files/folders that should be on that HDD?

    My research has returned lots of results on System Reserved partitions, but I haven't seen anything that covers my specific problem. I'm lost at this point and desperate to fix this without losing the data on that drive.

    Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

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  3. ryuwrx
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  4. AddRAM
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    No way can the drive you use to call F be the system reserved partition, no way.

    If your hard drive labeled F is not showing, then it died.

    The system reserved partition will never get a letter unless you give it a letter.

    Your other 1 TB drive does not even show up on your DM shot.

    There is no reason to get rid of the SR partition.

    Disc 0 is exactly how it should be and should be left alone, it shows the entire 1 TB drive.
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  6. Britton30
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    Your snip shows the 100MB System partition on the same drive as your OS, disk 0. AddRAM is correct, you are showing only two 1TB drives and a DVD.
    Oh, welcome to Seven Forums.:)
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  7. DocBrown
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    You need to expand your screen snip of disk management to full screen. We cannot see the bottom portion of it that probably shows the HD you are talking about.
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  8. AddRAM
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    Unless it`s raw, it would be showing up top, and I`m sure the op would see that. ( I hope )
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  10. ryuwrx
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    Thanks for the help guys. I just did a restart and had the same thought AddRAM mentions. My DISK2 is showing on BIOS, but it's not showing in the disk manager. That's a relief in ways, but now I need to find out why it's not showing.

    And thanks for the welcome.
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  11. ryuwrx
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    My drives are hot swappable, after the restart I had removed them to confirm my suspicions. I'm going to try another restart and put that drive on a different SATA port to see if it's the port or the drive.
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  12. ryuwrx
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    Well, it's not a SATA problem. Any suggestions on how to recover a crashed HDD?

    Thanks so much for the feedback guys. I was seriously stressing out about losing 12 years of data, which is still the problem, but at least I know the issue now and I can move forward.
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  13. AddRAM
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    Is the hard drive working ? It`s tough to recover data if the drive does not even show up.
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