How to clean up System Reserved area?

What programs? I'd use Partition Wizard or maybe a similar tool from Aomei or EaseUS--free programs.

PW is the common choice here. Sane interface, quite reliable. Not 100 percent guaranteed, so back up your data before you start. PW has some good tutorials on their website.

It may be that your problem is unrelated to the size of System Restore. I have no idea.

Thanks to ignatzatsonic and Layback Bear. I will get to these as soon as I have a way to recover.
Your thoughts as to why I can't seem to make a system repair disc?

Win7obfuscation said:

Your thoughts as to why I can't seem to make a system repair disc?

Can't help you there. I have a Windows 7 installation disc, which also functions as a repair disc.

The only way System Reserved can be clogged is if it is given a drive letter so programs can write to it. Why is it labeled Data, anyway? Makes me think you had a drive letter on it for some reason.

I think since there is nonsense going on there I would delete it entirely by moving the Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD - Windows 7 Forums.

Once the System Active flags are on C then you can delete SysReserved in Disk Mgmt.

Problem solved.

Hi greg.

it has never had a drive letter until now. I simply followed another thread and I started computer management and selected disk management and went to properties and assigned it a drive letter so that i could see the contents in explorer.

I migrated to an SSD 840 EVO and used the Samsung migration tool .. it did all of this AUTOMATICALLY when i switched over to the SSD a year ago. I had no knowledge of this until now. I read on other threads of others having similar problems and noted that they suggested that the "DATA" label was created by the migration software. Deduced from the size of 100 MB.

I think that I will have to move the system files in this directory.



I see that they are system files... BTW how does one copy these and any "hidden" files?

I am presently stuck trying to make a system repair disc.. getting an 080070057 error when I load a DVD to be burned. see another post in this forum. (any help here would be appreciated)

I have another question.... If i do move the system files to C: and change the system active flags.... whatever they are? to the c: partition then I will be OK... I hope this is not complicated by the fact that I have an SSD... does this make any difference?

Please read my post again as that is not at all what I suggested. C must be made bootable in addition to System files moved and set Active - all of which is automated in Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD - Windows 7 Forums

Under control panel SYSTEM => Advanced System Settings => System Protection tab, check if you have protection enabled on your SYSTEM_DRV (you probably do). Highlight it and check the 'configure' button. You probably have a large percentage of disk space enabled to be used (the slider on the bottom half). Reduce that to a smaller size.

thanks... does an SSD complicate things...
I noticed that any HD attached to the computer via USB causes the boot sequence to hang. I suspect that it is looking to the USB drive for the system files.. and returns a "not system disc" error... remove the HD and it boots OK... I then have to reattach it later to use it... I found this out when attaching an outboard HD to copy files to.

I still need to try and make a recovery disk...ho hum..