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1 minute ago, Joseph Hartness said:

No I reformatted it as it is a new storage device

So if the drive is empty, and you have a hankering for 100 megs more, go ahead and delete both partitions and then create a single one. That system reserved partition is where boot files were stored, and was created by the OS installed in the first place.

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Disk 0 is my boot drive.

Disk 1 is for storing pictures, music, and games.

For Disk 1 do I delete the system reserved?

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1 minute ago, Joseph Hartness said:

Disk 0 is my boot drive.

Disk 1 is for storing pictures, music, and games.

For Disk 1 do I delete the system reserved?

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just leave it its only 100MB...

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is there stuff on the drive right now?

NO: go ahead and delete it, then resize the other partition.

YES: leave it alone unless you want to back everything up onto another drive to mitigate chances of data loss when re-partitioning.

When in doubt, re-format.

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1 minute ago, Unexas. said:

just leave it its only 100MB...

Well it is an old drive from my laptop, isn't system reserved used for booting? I really don't need it.

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1 minute ago, pwn_intended said:

is there stuff on the drive right now?

NO: go ahead and delete it, then resize the other partition.

YES: leave it alone unless you want to back everything up onto another drive to mitigate chances of data loss when re-partitioning.

No I reformatted it as it is a new storage device

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Just now, Joseph Hartness said:

Well it is an old drive from my laptop, isn't system reserved used for booting? I really don't need it.

you can if you want but if it was me i would just leave it.

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1 minute ago, Joseph Hartness said:

No I reformatted it as it is a new storage device

So if the drive is empty, and you have a hankering for 100 megs more, go ahead and delete both partitions and then create a single one. That system reserved partition is where boot files were stored, and was created by the OS installed in the first place.

When in doubt, re-format.

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If this is your drive do not delete if it is another drive you want for other things delete it at your own risk

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Yeah that piece is actually really important.

I don't know how it ended up on your storage drive, but it somehow did. It actually should be on the SSD but just leave it alone.

 

Just try to boot your PC with the storage drive disconnected, it is very likely it won't boot because it needs that small partition...

 

 

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