system reserved

Hi guys, need some help here. I have this new rig installed with a SSD (for installations) and HDD (for storage). Initially, I could not get the Win7 to recognise the 2nd HDD. After surfing this forum, I managed to assign a letter and eventually 'found' HDD. But the problem is the 1TB HDD is...

i have "imaged" my system drive using DriveImage XML I set it as active with windows disk manager. but when I try to boot it tells me that BOOTMGR is missing. however, bootmgr exists on the system reserved partition it is also in windows\boot\pcat and under windows\winsxs\......... so what is...

I have here the following partitioning on my hard disc 1 primarypartition firstWin7system 2 SystemReservedPartition bootable active hidden 3 primarypartition otherWin7system 4 extendedLogicalPartition otherStuff When I boot now I got the boot selection menu from partition 2...

Hello, About 6 months ago I set up a new machine dual boot using GParted with the following configuration: /dev/sda1 ntfs (Windows 7 system reserved) 100 MB /dev/sda2 ntfs (Windows7 C: drive) 99 GB (includes 4 GB of preloaded page file space) /dev/sda3 ntfs (Shared drive - Windows7 E: Drive /...

My setup: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on ThinkPad T510. 1HD, two partitions (C and D). I just reinstalled my system and encrypted C; however, there is absolutely no option to encrypt D. I've tried accessing the drive from admin account and still nothing. When I open BitLocker management, it only...

[SOLVED] Why does Windows7 create two partitions? Hello I installed Windows7 Ultimate from scratch, and it warns that it might create a 100MB partition before creating a second one where the real stuff lives. This makes imaging more complicated. # fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB...

I have a 1tb hdd that i was dual booting Win7 and pinguy on separate partitions. I was able to format the c: drive partition,but when it came to the pinguy partition i couldn't. So i clicked on pinguy prt and clicked delete. I reinstalled Win7 on one prt and formated the unallocated space which...

hi all.. I have a problem. the computer works and everythings fine. but I get annoying massage at the boot prosses in when I start my computer. Link Removed this is exactly my problem. I tried everything there! but couldn't be able to fix the problem. I noticed that my active partition is...

Hi, In Win7 and Windows Server 2008, a 100MB partition is created for backup/restore purposes and labelled 'System Reserved Volume'. This partition has been created on a 12TB MBR drive I wish to make use of, but I can only take advantage of 2TB unless I switch the drive to GPT. In order to...

There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...

Hi guys, I have a problem with my Windows 7 x64 installation. I have played with a Playstation3 HDD and I have really screwed my Windows 7 partition table. I have tried booting with the setup dvd and tried everything there (startup repair, bootfix from cmd, etc) but nothing seems to work. I...

I bought a new computer where Win7 is already pre-installed on partition C: In addition I want now to install a second "test" Win7 system on a NEW primary partition. AND a logical "data" partition. At startup I want to choose later between the 2 Win7 systems which one I want to boot. When...

Good day, I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 and am getting ready to set everything up. I've run into a small roadblock on the partitioning front. The machine has a single drive of around 450 gb with a C: partition and two others. One is named "System Reserved" and the other is blank, but...

I'm having problems creating new partitions on my hdd fro munused space I have on my disk. It is bit long story but I hope somebody reads it and knows how to help me. I got a new Acer computer (with Windows 7) which had 1 TB hdd. In the hdd there were C- (~500 GB), D (~500 GB)-drives and this...

Okay I have done so many steps on BCDEDIT and Bootrec and Bootsect that i just dont know what ive done now ... Okay at first my computer didnt boot up (WINDOWS 7) because Bootmgr was failing and it happens to me a lot since i mess with the inside of my computer on a daily basis with other...

I am having trouble with a clean install of Win7. I installed/formatted a new HD in prep for installing Win7. Installion went fine. Got to desktop. Everything looked great. Began loading updates, drivers, software. Was directed to reboot system to complete install, then got a message that...

hi i have a laptop with windows 7 and it worked great until today, i saw a article about removing system reserved partition, so i removed it by booting with win7 installation dvd but after that my laptop wouldnt boot, it only shows "operating system was not found" and i tried this way...

Hi All I am trying to get windows 7 to boot after installing it along side XP and Vista. The OS's are all on seperate HDDs, all SATA and Win 7 having the luxury of being on SSD. I have had the system on dual boot for about 2 years now and liking the flexibility, so I don't want to...

I have never had one of these "reserved partitions, because I have always formatted first. For those of you who haven't here's how to take care of it. On a fresh (custom) installation of Windows 7, where Windows 7 is installed onto a new hard disk with unallocated disk space (no partition or...

Installing this OS has been a nightmare to date, granted it is on an older system: DFI Lanparty sli-dr NF4 AMD64 FX-53 2G ram 2x Seagate 120G barracudas (originally set up on a raid 0 array) BFG nvidia 7800 ultra On the initial install windows would not recognize my hard drives tried using...