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System reserved on a cloned HDD. Do I need it and how do I get it?
My original hard drive is failing. This computer is the first one I built and I dropped the hard drive while trying to install it. It has always made clicking noises and had some problems, but I'm cheap so I ignored them. Now the original install won't start and this time startup repair cannot fix the problem. At first it said Problem Signature 07: Bad Patch, now is says Problem Signature 07: Bad Driver.
I have a second hard drive. It has a variety of files, programming assignments, and other stuff on it, but a lot of unused space. Original drive is 1TB, this one is 2TB with 350GB of data on it.
I installed windows onto a small partition on the new drive as a recovery option to get access to my computer again.
I then created a new partition, big enough to hold all my data and cloned the original drive's primary partition to that space.
After this I ran fixboot and fixmbr to give me access to this drive. I am currently typing this while on the clone.
The system reserved partition is on the original drive. It still has the system tag, but basically every other tag is on the partition I've booted in to.
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That is what my drives currently look like. Do I need to have the system reserve partition on disk 0 before removing disk 1? How do I do this if it is necessary? If it's optional, what will the difference be with/without it?
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I'm not looking to reinstall windows unless it is my absolute last option. I have a ton of data and programs with custom settings that will take ages to get back together, which I don't really have time for.