2 Windows installs? System reserved disk is Full.

[Ven]

So basically here is the story.

 

i originally had my OS on an HDD, but after buying a samsung SSD and using the data migration tool provided i migrated my OS to the SSD.

 

last night i reformatted after a build, everything seemed to be fine, other than the fact that i had 2 windows 7 installs (as in, there is 2 options for windows 7, it acted as if i was duel booting two different windows 7s, even after reformatting.

 

i also noticed that my system reserved disk was about half full before the reformat, however after reinstalling windows the system reserved disk is basically full with only a few MB remaining?

 

as far as i can tell it being full is preventing me from installing windows updates, not to mention that its annoying that i need to select which windows 7 to boot from.

 

has anyone got any advice for me?

 

this is the error i get when i try to boot using the 2nd windows 7 boot option.

 

could it be part of the old windows before i reformatted? should i just reformat my SSD and the system reserved disk and reinstall windows as normal? would that fix the issue?

[Regis_DeVallis]

I would do a fresh install, but wait to do it until other people say the same. Just throwing my opinion out there. 

[Kirky2k15]

You should never need to mess about with system reserved space, just leave it as default, do a fresh install delete all partitions when you come to reinstall windows and let the windows installer configure everything for you...

[paradigm249]

 

pretty much what everybody else say. do a clean install.

[Ven]

You should never need to mess about with system reserved space, just leave it as default, do a fresh install delete all partitions when you come to reinstall windows and let the windows installer configure everything for you...

 

i pretty much did just this, but when i came to reformat i just refomatted the SSD and nothing else, so i assume that the new windows install did not install over the old system reserved, but rather installed along with it, thus why the system reserved it double the space now. would you reccomend formatting both the SSD AND the system reserved partition? that way its a fresh install alltogether. thats just me making assumptions on how windows works though.

 

also it worth mentioning that my old windows install was throught the disk provided with my original PC, where as this new windows install is an ISO i burnt to a USB drive, they are the same version of windows though.

[Kirky2k15]

. would you reccomend formatting both the SSD AND the system reserved partition? that way its a fresh install alltogether. thats just me making assumptions on how windows works though.

 

 

Yes do a fresh install, delete all partitions on the SSD and let windows do its thing...