HOW TO EXPAND SYSTEM RESERVED PARTITION WINDOWS 7

HOW TO EXPAND SYSTEM RESERVED PARTITION WINDOWS 7

If you all notice from the adverts microsoft claim its new windows 7 loads faster than previous versions. The windows defrag is still uselss at this.

The more data that is on your drive, the more the drive becomes fragmented. I just wanted to add to this post for everyone as requards to the Extra partition, and also the other main reason for itДЇor those of you that dont know wbaout hard drives and fragmentation ect. That's how I installed Win7 on my main computer and Ghost works fine. Using a mouse is much easier than using a keyboard in BING but the keyboard was used as a demo. It's directed at BING users so some of the concepts will appear strange. Here is an interesting video on installing Win7 to its own primary partition. I didn't make it clear in my first post that if you create a primary partition (to be used for the Win7 install) prior to booting from the Win7 DVD, you don't get a SRP. Win7 boots and I can guarantee that using F8 still works. I removed the SRP using the second method from Message #3. I needed to jog my memory too about the F8 option. I knew you were going to ask so I just installed Win7 to unallocated space so that I'd have a SRP. If one did those then the RE would not be directly available as I understand it although would be if you use the Recovery via the installation media disk. There was talk of deleting the SRP and of moving the boot files.

if you restore to a different DiskID or different partition layout it becomes a lot harder to control the drive letter of the Windows partition (because the System partition may want to become 'C').'.

to backup your OS you have to capture two partitions instead of one, and.

it takes up a slot in the partition table,.

So, the advantages of having a System Reserved partition are, IMHO, minor or insignificant, while the disadvantages are: who needs a RE when we can just restore our OS from a backup image? I think it would be pretty difficult to infect the operating system contained in that image.ДЄnd of course, for frequenters of this forum the RE is even less useful because we make backup images of our OS. In essence, when you boot the RE I believe you're booting into a virtual drive that is 'restored' on demand from the. The RE is no longer a bunch of files sitting on your hard drive, it's actually a partition image (another. But I doubt it's really much of an advantage because it's a lot more difficult for a virus to infect the RE than it used to be. It's possible the RE might be slightly less vulnerable to corruption or viruses if it's on a different partition-especially when that partition has its drive letter removed (as is the case during a normal Windows 7 bootup). The RE files are put on the System partition, so if you do not have a separate System Reserved partition you can still press F8 and boot into the RE, be the RE files will end up coming from the same partition as Windows. So for 99% of us, BitLocker isn't an option-and thus isn't a legitimate excuse to saddle us with a System Reserved partition.ДЄs for the Recovery Environment argument, note that you'll still have a RE with or without a System Reserved partition.

The rub is that BitLocker is only available in the Ultimate and Enterprise versions of Windows 7. In a BitLocker'd system you would begin booting from the unencrypted System partition, it would load the encryption driver, and you'd then have access to the encrypted Boot partition. IOW, you can't encrypt the entire hard disk. In order to encrypt the Windows partition with BitLocker, you understandably have to have unencrypted access to some place from which you can load the BitLocker driver/program. (That's where you get to if you press F8 at boot time and choose 'Repair my computer'.) 'To the best of my knowledge, the System Reserved partition has only two purposes: to allow BitLocker to be used on the Windows partition, and to provide a 'safer place' for the Recovery Environment files. Two folders, Boot and System Volume Information. My 100 MB partition contained 28 MB of data.

How to expand system reserved partition