My new cloned hard drive says "System Reserved." What do I do?

amdgraphics

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Hi!

So as the title says, I have just cloned a hard drive (with Windows 7 Home Premium and everything else), and when I checked the admin account, everything seemed to be there. But when booting into the BIOS, the hard drive didn't have a bootable option, and when going to "My Computer", the drive is listed as "System Reserved (E:), with 78.1 MB free, and 28.1 MB used. And when I click on the drive, there is nothing that shows up on it. I don't know what to do, and help would be much appreciated!

New HDD: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM006/dp/B01IEKG402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519355756&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+barracuda+2tb

Asus motherboard.

UPDATE: So I booted up the PC with just the new drive, and everything started up fine, except for the fact that the drive is labeled C, instead of E, and that it still says that it is 1TB, not 2TB. Does that mean that I can write to the rest of the drive?
 
By default, Windows assign letter C: to disk/partition it's booted from, no surprise there.
When you clone adrive, it clones all partitions as they were in source disk, so if you cloned from 1GB drive partition sizes would be same. For further details look in Disk Management in Windows, will probably find rest of disk space as uninitialized partition.
 

amdgraphics

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So I did find the drive still had 931.50 gigs left, but even when I allocated it, it didn't come up as the boot drive, even though the BIOS says it is. Also, the BIOS says my old drive is disabled, so I'm not sure about that either.

 

USAFRet

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Lets verify first.

Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the 2TB Disk 0
Power up

Does it boot properly?
Probably.

So...to remove that E drive letter.
Disk Management
Right click on that space.
Change drive letter or path.
That will give you the option of removing the E drive letter from that partition.

For the Unallocated space in Disk 0
Right click on the C partition (Healthy, etc)
What options does it give you? Possibly Extend
If so, this will allow you to Extend that partition to the right, using that unallocated 931GB space.
 

amdgraphics

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Hang on, so you want me to remove the E DRIVE letter, not the C drive letter? Just to be clear.

Nevermind, I got! I was just removing the letter, and therefore access to the drive! Thank you! And I was able to extend the new drive, so thanks!