After installing a SSD and cloning my old HDD, my system reserved partition is only 31MB, and I can't install the latest Windows 10 Pro update. I get the error message "We couldn't update the System Reserved Partition". Below is a screenshot of my Disk Management screen.
View: https://imgur.com/a/N2tmjEl
I found a similar thread on Tom's and I think it contains the solution, but I am unsure about one step. Here is the response in the thread:
Posted by SkyNetRising on Jan 2, 2020, in a thread entitled “I cannot install system updates after swapping to an SSD”
45MB for a bootloader partition is too small.
Is your old HDD still available? You could redo cloning with larger bootloader partition (500MB).
Alternatively you could create a new bootloader partition manually.
BTW - is that 12GB unallocated space left there intentionally?
Anyway -
delete 453 MB recovery partition first,
then create a new bootloader partition 500mb,
set it active,
format to ntfs,
create bootloader files on it,
test, if it boots properly,
then delete 45MB old bootloader partition.
To do that, execute from elevated command prompt. Regular command prompt will give error on last command.
(https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-open-a-windows-10-elevated-command-prompt/ )
diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 3
(select 453MB partition)
delete partition override
create partition primary size=500
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=H
exit
bcdboot C:\windows /s H:
What I don't understand is the statement above "Create bootloader files on it." Is this something covered by the elevated command prompt instructions above, or something different?
Also what changes to the instructions would I need to make based on my Disk Management screenshot?
Thanks for anyone who can help me out. I tried extending the volume using Disk Management, but even after shrinking the 223 GB volume, and creating 350MB of unallocated space, it wouldn't work because the unallocated space was not adjacent to the system reserved volume.
View: https://imgur.com/a/N2tmjEl
I found a similar thread on Tom's and I think it contains the solution, but I am unsure about one step. Here is the response in the thread:
Posted by SkyNetRising on Jan 2, 2020, in a thread entitled “I cannot install system updates after swapping to an SSD”
45MB for a bootloader partition is too small.
Is your old HDD still available? You could redo cloning with larger bootloader partition (500MB).
Alternatively you could create a new bootloader partition manually.
BTW - is that 12GB unallocated space left there intentionally?
Anyway -
delete 453 MB recovery partition first,
then create a new bootloader partition 500mb,
set it active,
format to ntfs,
create bootloader files on it,
test, if it boots properly,
then delete 45MB old bootloader partition.
To do that, execute from elevated command prompt. Regular command prompt will give error on last command.
(https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-open-a-windows-10-elevated-command-prompt/ )
diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 3
(select 453MB partition)
delete partition override
create partition primary size=500
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=H
exit
bcdboot C:\windows /s H:
What I don't understand is the statement above "Create bootloader files on it." Is this something covered by the elevated command prompt instructions above, or something different?
Also what changes to the instructions would I need to make based on my Disk Management screenshot?
Thanks for anyone who can help me out. I tried extending the volume using Disk Management, but even after shrinking the 223 GB volume, and creating 350MB of unallocated space, it wouldn't work because the unallocated space was not adjacent to the system reserved volume.