Increase system reserved partition how to#
Increase system reserved partition update#
Increase system reserved partition upgrade#

Step 1: Right click C: drive and select 'Resize/Move Volume', drag left border towards right in the pop-up window (or enter an amount in ' Unallocated space before'). Steps to extend system reserved partition in Windows 10/8/7 laptop/desktop: If you've shrunk C or other partition using Disk Management, NIUBI Partition Editor can move Unallocated space to the left side of C drive, and then combine to the System Reserved partition.Дownload NIUBI Partition Editor and you'll see the initial partition size and other information, there's a 550MB system reserved partition in my test computer. So System Reserved partition can be extended easily after shrinking C drive. Unlike Windows Disk Management that can only shrink a volume towards left, NIUBI Partition Editor can shrink a drive and make Unallocated space on either left or right.

Increase system reserved partition how to#

How to extend system reserved volume with partition editor To change system reserved partition size in Windows 10/8/7, you have to run partition editor software. Because the same with Disk Management, it requires deleting the right contiguous partition (C: drive). Although there's extend command, diskpart can't extend system reserved partition. It helps you manage disk partition from command prompt. Windows 10/8/7 and the very old Windows Vista/XP has another native tool - diskpart. As you see in the screenshot, Extend Volume is disabled for the system reserved partition after shrinking C drive. You can't delete it because it is where Windows Operating System located. The only way to get contiguous Unallocated space for the System Reserved partition is by deleting C drive. If you shrink the adjacent C drive, Unallocated space is nonadjacent to the System Reserved partition. Because when extending a partition using Disk Management, there must be contiguous Unallocated space on the right. Can't extend system reserved partition with diskpart or Disk ManagementДЄlthough there's Extend Volume in Windows 10/8/7 Disk Management tool, you cannot extend System Reserved partition by shrinking C or other volume. You can solve this problem by extending System Reserved partition in Windows 10/8/7.

Increase system reserved partition upgrade#

When you upgrade Windows 7/8 to Windows 10, original System Reserved partition is too small.

The System Reserved partition consumes 100 MB of space on Windows 7, 350 MB of space on Windows 8, and 500 MB of space on Windows 10.

The System Reserve Partition (SRP) is a small partition on your hard drive, some third-party anti-virus and security apps write to the SRP, and can fill it up.

Increase system reserved partition update#

When upgrading from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10, or updatingВ Windows 10/8/7, you might encounter the error ' We couldn't update system reserved partition', error code 0xc1900104, or error code 0x800f0922.В This is because: In general, you don't need to care about the System Reserved partition.