System reserved drives

[ajkjr]

I have three "System Reserved" disks each 100mb. I understand there is supposed to be 1 with Windows 7 but why do I have three? I occasionally get "low disk space" warning for these drives. When I look at them under disk management 1 is at 100% used and the other 2 are at 30%. I originally had a RAID 1 setup but it is now broken in case that may have something to do with it. Thanks for any help or direction to information that can help me. Joe

 

[whs]

Retain the one that is "Active" and delete the other 2. You may want to first image them - just in case.

 

[ajkjr]

System Reserved Drives

All three say "active, primary partition" but one says "system, active, primary partition". SHould I keep the one that says system and delete the other two. I assume you mean to do an image of my primary partition (in this case C).

Thanks again.

Joe

 

[whs]

No, I meant to make an image of the little partitions you are about to delete. But that may not be neccessary because instead of deleting them, it may be easier to first set 2 of those little ones to "Logical" (and keep the one that says "system, active, primary). To set them to logical, use the bootable CD of this program ( BEST FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows supports all 32-bit & 64 bit Windows No-server OS. ). The controls are in the Partition tab > Modify.

If that works, we can still delete the partitions. I think that would be the cautious approach.

The advantage of the bootable CD of Partition Wizard is that you can still manipulate the partitions even if the system goes on the blink.

 

[gregrocker]

Yes, you want the System Active partition which is booting Win7. And it should be the only System and/or Active partition.

However, to be sure please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt drive map with listings, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu.

Always wipe the HD's when reinstalling Win7, or at least delete all partitions.

 

[ajkjr]

System reserved drive

Here is screen shot of my drives. Thanks for all the help.

 

[FliGi7]

Yea, you can delete H and Y without repercussion. The only System Reserved partition you need is on the main boot drive, which appears to be the Z partition.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Have a look at Option Two of this tutorial at the link below for an outline of the process needed to recover the space from any "System Reserved" partition you wish to recover into the other partitions though you won't need to do Step Three.

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

 

[mjf]

Yes to the above.
But I would make your current disk 2 (Z:, C: ) disk 0 with a cable swap. Also I would remove the letter (Z: ) from system reserved. That is, don't assign it a letter. Only assign it a letter on the rare occasion you go inside for a look, then remove the letter.

 

[gregrocker]

Use Partition Wizard bootable CD as suggested to rightclick Delete the non-System 100mb SysReserved partitions, click OK.

then rightclick the adjacent partition next to each deleted 100mb, choose Resize, drag the left grey border to the far left to recover the 100mb, OK.

Next rightclick Z to remove the drive letter, OK, Apply all steps.

When you have a chance rightclick on each partition to Check File System and run a Surface Scan to check disk integrity.

 

[ajkjr]

System Reserved Drive

I think I did this right but the two small partitions seem to still be there. I did the resize but the left gray bar was already all the way to the left.

Thanks

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I think I did this right but the two small partitions seem to still be there. I did the resize but the left gray bar was already all the way to the left.

Thanks

You have to click and hold the left gray bar to drag it to the left all the way even if it doesn't look like there's any space there and then in the left pane "Operations Pending" column you have to click "Apply" then "Yes" for the changes to take effect.

 

[mjf]

The numers in the unallocated boxes should both be 0.
You still haven't got your boot disk in disk 0 position (disk 1 Partition Wizard numbering). Never mind.
Did you mean for Disk 4 (PW screen shot) to be dynamic?