What is System Reserved, and can i delete it? ( or at least hide it)

[zombiehacker]

So i recently bought a 500gb SSD for my PC. I decided to do a fresh install of windows 10 onto it, which all went fine and dandy, but now i have a 100mb partition on my computer called "System Reserved". It has a single 1kb file in it named "$UpgDrv$" (No clue what that means), and i'm wondering if i can delete it? Deletion isn't necessary, but at the very least i want it gone from my "this PC" page as it's absolutely infuriating to look at. (I like things to be neat.)

While we're on that topic, is it possible to also hide the Disk Drive from "this PC", as well as a random USB drive that isn't actually plugged in?

Thanks for any help.

 

[USAFRet]

So i recently bought a 500gb SSD for my PC. I decided to do a fresh install of windows 10 onto it, which all went fine and dandy, but now i have a 100mb partition on my computer called "System Reserved". It has a single 1kb file in it named "$UpgDrv$" (No clue what that means), and i'm wondering if i can delete it? Deletion isn't necessary, but at the very least i want it gone from my "this PC" page as it's absolutely infuriating to look at. (I like things to be neat.)

While we're on that topic, is it possible to also hide the Disk Drive from "this PC", as well as a random USB drive that isn't actually plugged in?

Thanks for any help.

1. No you cannot delete it. If you do, no boot for you
2. It should NOT appear in 'This PC'. Does it have a drive letter?
If so, just remove that drive letter in Disk Management.

 

[zombiehacker]

So i recently bought a 500gb SSD for my PC. I decided to do a fresh install of windows 10 onto it, which all went fine and dandy, but now i have a 100mb partition on my computer called "System Reserved". It has a single 1kb file in it named "$UpgDrv$" (No clue what that means), and i'm wondering if i can delete it? Deletion isn't necessary, but at the very least i want it gone from my "this PC" page as it's absolutely infuriating to look at. (I like things to be neat.)

While we're on that topic, is it possible to also hide the Disk Drive from "this PC", as well as a random USB drive that isn't actually plugged in?

Thanks for any help.

1. No you cannot delete it. If you do, no boot for you
2. It should NOT appear in 'This PC'. Does it have a drive letter?
If so, just remove that drive letter in Disk Management.

I went into disk management, and the the partition doesn't allow me to alter anything, not really sure why.

http://i.imgur.com/bzGvurv.png

 

[USAFRet]

Show us a screencap of 'This PC' where you see this partition.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, when you installed the OS on the SSD, was it the only drive connected int he system?

 

[zombiehacker]

Show us a screencap of 'This PC' where you see this partition.

http://i.imgur.com/yzmClU4.png Here it is.

btw i think you've answered a few of my questions in the past, so thanks for helping out.

Edit: ^ Yes it was, heard it could cause problems installing windows with other Hard drives connected, so i unplugged them.

 

[USAFRet]

Try this:
Disconnect the old HDD
Power on
Go into Disk Management
Right click on that 'D' partition
What options does it give you? (hopefully more than before)

 

[zombiehacker]

Try this:
Disconnect the old HDD
Power on
Go into Disk Management
Right click on that 'D' partition
What options does it give you? (hopefully more than before)

Removing the old HDD Got rid of the System Reserved partition.

http://i.imgur.com/OgDcS2k.png

Now, i'm not really sure what's happening. It only appeared when i installed windows onto the SSD.

 

[zombiehacker]

Okay i'm dumb, you inadvertently gave me the solution. The system reserved partition was apart of my old HDD, and disk management does allow me to hide that.

 

[McHenryB]

I suspect that you are seeing the System Reserved partition from your hard disk, not the SSD. Have you tried deallocating the drive letter from that partition? (If I am right you could probably safely delete that partition but, for the sake of 100MB I wouldn't risk it.)

 

[zombiehacker]

I suspect that you are seeing the System Reserved partition from your hard disk, not the SSD. Have you tried deallocating the drive letter from that partition? (If I am right you could probably safely delete that partition but, for the sake of 100MB I wouldn't risk it.)

Yea you are right, i assumed it was part of the SSD since it only showed up in my "this PC" after i installed it. I'll just hide it.