Windows 10 System Reserved Drive

[Dash Lambda]

I just recently 'upgraded' to Windows 10, and it's just been one unforgivable bug after another... Let alone the absurd 'features'...

 

Anyway, the System Reserved partition is taking up a drive letter and showing up in the file explorer. Honestly, I'm not even sure what it does, all of the stuff I've been able to find on it is vague and unhelpful... I just know that it's never shown up before, and I don't want it showing up like a normal hard drive. Anyone have any input?

[manikyath]

after about a month of struggling, here's my input: clean install. toss everything you want on a seperate drive, unplug it, and start from scratch.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

after about a month of struggling, here's my input: clean install. toss everything you want on a seperate drive, unplug it, and start from scratch.

Really? I have to do a complete reinstall?

...

God, this is a truly terrible thing...

I miss Windows 7...

[manikyath]

Just now, Dash Lambda said:

Really? I have to do a complete reinstall?

...

God, this is a truly terrible thing...

I miss Windows 7...

well, its mostly little issues, but if that little issue is "something went wrong in the upgrade, and your system is now half windows 8.1, and half windows 10, and you dont actually get told that any error happened" it can get messy.

[beavo451]

3 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

Really? I have to do a complete reinstall?

...

God, this is a truly terrible thing...

I miss Windows 7...

You should do a reinstall whenever your upgrade the operating system no matter which version it it.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

well, its mostly little issues, but if that little issue is "something went wrong in the upgrade, and your system is now half windows 8.1, and half windows 10, and you dont actually get told that any error happened" it can get messy.

It's a bunch of little things, though. I had to spend several hours tracking down and disabling all the bloatware and guff on a fresh OS install...

The forced placement grid in the display configuration thingy is so bad that I can't line my monitors up properly, I have to completely disable Aero Snap to be able to easily and freely move windows between displays, it took me hours and hours to figure out how the hell to make my computer not go to sleep after two minutes of inactivity (even though it was set to "never"), so many little friggin' things...

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, beavo451 said:

You should do a reinstall whenever your upgrade the operating system no matter which version it it.

I should clarify, this is a fresh install. It's a brand new drive, that's why I put 10 on it.

[beavo451]

3 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

I should clarify, this is a fresh install. It's a brand new drive, that's why I put 10 on it.

If you really had that many issues with your Windows 10 install, then something went wrong during the installation. 

 

The system reserved partition contains the boot loader and is also used for Bitlocker. It is hidden by default.

 

Try going to disk management, right clicking on the partiton, and removing the drive letter.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, beavo451 said:

If you really had that many issues with your Windows 10 install, then something went wrong during the installation. 

 

The system reserved partition contains the boot loader and is also used for Bitlocker. It is hidden by default.

 

Try going to disk management, right clicking on the partiton, and removing the drive letter.

Wow.

Oh wow, I...

Okay, I just looked in disk management and the System Reserved drive I'm seeing is a partition on my old system drive... So it's left over from my Win7 install...

I am a moron.