How to remove 'system reserved' partition from NEW M.2

[dazlerd]

Hi

I've bought a 250GB 960 EVO m.2 to replace my existing 128GB 850 Evo SSD that has the Windows 10 on it. No RAID.

I used AOMEI Backupper Standard to try and clone the 850 to the 960 but when it had completed i realised that it was just a disc clone of the 850 not a system clone - as that is in the paid product. So i have removed the boot partition from the 960, formatted the main partition, but i still have a 'system reserved' partition on the 960 that I can't delete. The option on the right click in disc management is disabled.

1) How can i delete this partition?

2) When i find software that will actually copy from the 850 and create a bootable drive will it use this same reserved partition or create another one ?

Thanks

 

[Sedivy]

Ok if you've put the image onto M.2, why did you bother renaming or deleting partitions? Did it not work at that point when just booting up?

 

[dazlerd]

M.2 is formatted. thats all. windows and bios see it.

 

[Sedivy]

Ok if M.2 is a formatted single partition drive with nothing on it, can you put an image on it together with all the partitions from the original drive ie. the boot, recovery and the os containing partitions and then boot up into it?
If it can't create partitions for you, try simply moving the partition containing the OS onto the m.2 drive, then after taking out the 850 drive, putting in windows install cd and on the new m.2 960 going through the boot repair process, so that the install cd can re-create a boot partition on the empty space of the drive without you having to partition space for it manually or copy it from the old drive. For this to work, it cannot find boot partitions on any other drive ie. only m.2 needs to be plugged in. I'm still not positive you can do it that way but try.
Honestly though, by now, it would have taken less time to just back up important documents from the old install, fresh install windows on the new drive, and simply reinstall programs and put in your backed up documents back onto it. This is precisely why I never bother copying over installations.

 

[john.c.fenton]

A system reserved partition is standard on a boot drive. If for some reason you feel like you don't want that partition so you can recoup the 100 to 500MB it occupies, you must manually create a partition on your new drive that uses 100% of the space available, then install Windows into that partition. The data normally held in that reserved partition will be placed with all the other files for your OS.

If you are restoring a backup image that has the system partition, I'm not sure you will be able to recover that without creating the system partition. That info needs to be somewhere.

 

[dazlerd]

Hi
Quick Update
After running for a couple of days with the old 850 SSD i took another system image.
I then used the windows boot cd to install this image on the m.2 960. It worked fine and booted ok. However, I couldn't work out how to remove the reserved partition so i attach the extra 120Gb to the now C: drive. So i deleted the reserved partition and then merged the other two partitions together. Job Done.

Thanks for everyones help on this.