system reserved

Hi there, I'm really in need of some help with my Windows 8. When I installed my Windows XP, for some reason my Windows 8 moved to E: Partition, when it previously was on C: Partition, now C: Partition is a System Reserved partition. Now what I want to know, is moving my Windows 8/E: Files to...

Using the program called Eraser, I erased the free disk space of drive D: which is a logical partition on my only physical drive. Apparently the program overwrote the Master File Table Records and as result, I do not see the content of the D: drive. When looking at the properties of the D...

So, for the longest time I have had windows 7 and linux on my laptop. I decided i will just stick with windows, so i can single boot and so i have more HDD space (something all my games is about to take up on my current C: drive). When I installed linux (PCLOS if your curious) it added some...

my machine is bootable and WIN7 starts without any problems. My Problem is I'd like create "System Reserved" to boot from this partition using F8 key and "Repair your computer" instead of booting from the CD boot disk. I've already tried to boot with a Windows Repair CD, I've done "Startup...

I\'ve just had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Dell laptop and my hard drive is 298GB. After the reinstall that\'s divided as follows 100 MB OEM partition (from original setup) 9.77 GB Recovery partition (from original setup) 100 MB System Reserved (System, Active, Primary partition)...

Hello, So this is a bit of an interesting situation that is a tad long and I think it is best to start from the beginning. It started when I received this error when running with my Seagate HDD: Link Removed I got a new 1TB WD Black and used Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate on to my new...

I added an SSD to my PC yesterday and have managed to get windows installed on it. As I didn't remove my old HDD with windows on it before there was a little messing around to get windows installed on the SSD and I've somehow managed to end up with the 100Mb of unallocated space that would be...

My laptop hard drive failed and the local repair shop couldn’t salvage it so I had them install a 120GB SSD. Everything worked great. Thought I could DIY and install a 2nd 1TB HD to hold all my media files, keeping SSD for system files and favorite programs. I got it up and running but not...

I have a 3 year old Alienware desktop running Win 7 Professional (see my profile for more computer specs). I have never had any major problem including running weekly backups to a second internal hard drive using Windows backup. About 3 weeks ago the backup failed and produced the mentioned...

Encountered this problem when trying to install windows: I couldnt install windows in C ,neither to format that partition because of this message [Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks]...

Hello I copied this from my MS Word to keep for reference. Most of this is Win 7 that is why I selected this instead of Win 8 's forum. I am about to take the plunge but wanted to tie up a few questions so if someone had the time I would appreciate the help. I am going to install Win 8 in my...

Hi all. I am having a problem with installing Windows 7 on my netbook (Novero Solana). I did a clean install (wiped out Windows 8) and when using a USB boot install of Windows 7, I encountered the following error (Disk 0 Unallocated Space): "Windows 7 install Error "Setup was unable to use...

Hi all. I am having a problem with installing Windows 7 on my netbook (Novero Solana). I did a clean install (wiped out Windows 8) and when using a USB boot install of Windows 7, I encountered the following error (Disk 0 Unallocated Space): "Windows 7 install Error "Setup was unable to use...

Hi, I was trying to make a dual boot system and came across this problem. Hope someone could help. I have two HDDs, one with Win XP in it and other in which I am trying to load Win 7. I made a primary partition (NTFS) through Win XP in the second HDD (labelled it I) and started loading Win 7...

Hello, I am trying to backup a Windows Server 2008 r2 VM running on ESXi 5.0.0. When I run the Windows Server Backup snap-in it returns the '2155348129' error code. Looking around this seems to be caused byt the OS partition not being active, however since it is a VM I'm afraid changing the...

when I try to install the new beta I get this Error Message. "Setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volume does not contain the required free space". The System reserved drive shows 14.7 mb free of 100 mb. That does seem pretty full doesn't it? How could I clear some...

during the re installation of window7 can i formate the system reserved drive of 100 mb along with c drive? or system reserved should be left as it is? please help me regards

I've had W7 on two computers that I built: My old one and my new one On the old comuter, W7 installed itself, boot loader and all, on a single partition. However, on my new build, W7 created a 100 mb "system reserved" partition leaving 111 G for data on one of my SSD's which I decided to use...

hello all, somehow my hard disk partition became dynamic. i formatted system and insttaled windows 7 ultimate in the dynamic disk partition. from then onwards system is not booting. only black screen with cursor on the upper left corner of the black screen. if i am not wrong windows 7 cannot...

Hi. I'm hoping someone can help as I've spent many evenings on this problem and getting nowhere! When attaching a flash drive: 1. The autoplay pop up doesn't appear; 2. The device does light up initially; 3. The device doesn't show up in "Computer" 4. The device doesn't show up in Disk...