An empty Partition and system reserved Partition

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• Should I be defragmentation PQ Service and system reserved?

  I use windows 7 SP1, it's my Disk Defrag - it shows 3 discs, the first is that I expect to defrag - my C drive, which is scheduled to run, and I have no problem with defragmenting drive C.

  I have no idea what these other 2 discs do or if Iam assume defrag them as well.

  PQ Service - last run 24/07/12 0% fragmented

  RESERVE SYSTEM - 7/3112 was last run 8% fragmented.

  I would appreciate any information on these 2 discs. TIA...

  ~ ~ granny

  Hello learning-to-62,

  The disk marked PQ service partition contains a copy of your operating system and is used to restore your system to conditions in the factory if you have any major problems. You can find a way to restore your system to conditions at the factory by looking in the PC Guide, that came with your PC or even to visit your PC manufacturer website. This partition you have no need to defragment because no changes have been made for him.

  The System reserved is a small partition that contains your Windows operating system startup files. Personally, I defragment this file as well as my C: drive.

  This forum post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the opinion of Microsoft, its employees or other MVPS.

  John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Expert - consumer: www.winuser.co.uk |  vistasupport.mvps.org | xphelpandsupport.mvps.org | www.silversurfer-Guide.com

• Windows system reserved (j) poster and additional partitions PQService (k)

  My E-machine with Windows 7 top computer.  I've had it for years.  A few years ago system reserved (J :) and PQService (K :) started to appear.  I have an Acer monitor, I bought after the purchase of the computer.  I don't think that this J and K were there initially.  I think they came close a year or two ago.  Do I need this on my computer?  What are they for?

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your question on the Microsoft community.

  Thank you for details on the issue.

  The 100 MB partition is a partition system and contains the boot files. Disk Manager does not allow you to delete this partition because they remove this partition could force the system to no boot.

  So, please do not try to remove or delete the "System Reserved" partition.

  For reference, see suggestions of Debbie - Support Engineer replied on June 11, 2009.
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/can-i-delete-the-system-reserved-partition-from/656014d2-A516-46e6-a841-d0f9333ecb48

  PQservice's hidden partition that allows you to restore the system out of the box state.

  For reference, see suggestions of SpiritX MS MVP responded on February 20, 2012.
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-hardware/what-is-pqservice/6e0fb4d4-270B-4B64-BCDF-a7f1b73a2513

  Then I suggest that you keep the two partitions.

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thank you

• Upgrade Windows 10 on Satellite C70D-A-11th cannot change system reserved partition

  Today, I tried to use the windows upgrade free 10.
  After a few seconds, I get a message that "Windows Installation 10 improvement can not edit/adjust the system reserved partition"
  Then, he begins to remove the installation files, then left...
  Someone at - it an idea how to solve this problem and make the upgrade work?

  Myself, solved the problem was that the partition reserved for the system was only 100 MB!
  Extended to 350 MB size (as it should be!)
  Problem solved!

• system reserved partition

  I'll install win8 on an SSD, but it is necessary to create a system partition reserved on my SSD win8 installing?

  Help, please

  Hello

  Please report the number of HP for your PC product so that members of the community can better help you with your questions and your questions.

  Windows 8 will automatically create the partitions required according to the format of hard drive and if the PC is in UEFI etc.

  I have four images bootable (W7s - 2 and 2 - W8s) on one hard drive and I don't have a system reserve partition.

  Use a higher than 160 GB SSD and the HP recovery discs should work.

• Pavilion dm4: Windows 10 upgrade fails with the message error "we couldn't update the system reserved partition."

  Both HP and Microsoft indicate my laptop was ready for the upgrade to Windows 10, but when I tried to do the upgrade there not - several times - with the error message of Microsoft that "we could not update the system reserved partition."

  What should do?

  Other threads of error indicate the system reserved partition must be larger.  This partition is usually small.  Try making at least 400 MB instead of the 100 MB to 250 MB it is probably now.

• HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC: windows 10 could ' t update the system reserved partition

  Installation Windows 10 leads following on the Windows Update screen:

  Windows 10 could not be installed

  We could not update the system reserved partition.

  What now?

  It worked despite me:

  Don't enter the right amount of space between "/" s, skipped the part attrib by accident, and when I couldn't find the file Explorer options moved the command chkdsk.  As it was for Windows 7 to 8 figurative later may not be necessary.

  Installation failed with code C1900101 (if the memory.)  Seen people on other boards with driver issues, I have disconnected my external monitor and was able to install.

  All right, so thanks.

• Is your system reserved Partition a drive C?

  Hello

  (Which happened to me)
  I advise you to use a window for this xp CD. Your steps to install Windows xp but I find it easy to this because the lay out is clear and is easier to understand. And also I have tried with an CD of window Xp (Service Pack 3)
  I don't know if anyone else has know how to solve this problem... but I don't
  
  
  Done included formatting of your driver if I were you I'd do a Back up... you can always make a new partition called back up and save all of your stuff...
  
  
  
  
  Heres how to make Partition * I do not own the video *.
  
  
  For Windows Vista and 7:
  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ETN8wrSmIsI&feature=related
  For Windows Xp:
  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=pmpazHBzXjY
  I've seen a lot of questions * not on this site but others * saying that they got an extra driver called a System reserved? If this is the case, many people * including me * was going to re install this than ever operating system * mainly window 7 * they had. If you did that most of the people who notice they drive Local letter had changed and probably F * my local drive letter has changed from being a C and a D * and also that system reserved Partition had never removed...
  In this forum, I am showing you how to make your Local drive letter to C...
  If this happened to you, it may take some time until what you discover the problem. If your installation of something, such as a game or a driver * especially printer * it would give you an error saying you need to install that either the driver you want to install on this C driver. But the thing is... that C is your reserved system driver. You can't install anything on this Partition, because to guess the name of this Partition its your thing system reserved. * I don't have any idea what it does * Heres how to solve your problem!
  Pop in your Windows CD...
  Go on your installation
  For Windows XP:
  Your screen should look like this once it load programs
   http://www.Google.co.UK/imgres?imgurl=http :// www.petri.co.il/images/setup6.jpg&imgrefurl=http :// www.petri.co.il/install_windows_xp_pro.htm&h=396&w=720&sz=15&tbnid=tUJX_TV-uIRuRM: & tbnh = 66 & tbnw = 120 & zoom = 1 & usg = __3_ZWCN9dLbv_c7WHe0xTT3681_w = & docid = wmTKynBj5wqexM & hl = en & his = X & ei = zkdVUMDaCMaW0QXiw4GYBQ & sqi = 2 & ved = 0CCkQ9QEwAw & hard = 1184
  It doesn't have to be a partition... In this case they probably two riders, but all we need is this reserved system and drive Local...
  Now, go to your system reserved... Make sure that this white bar is on...
  Now, press D and delete this partition...
  After you have removed it you will now need to format your Local drive * knowing you your files to be supported upward or don't need them *...
  Now you must create the partition by pressing C and following the instructions on the screen
  After this time you want to install Windows xp, its up to you, if it is to take the Cd and put it in the operating system you want to install...
  For Windows Vista, 7
  Your screen should look like this
  Window 7
  http://0.tqn.com/d/pcsupport/1/0/d/5/-/-/Windows-7-install-10.jpg
  Window Vista
  http://www.Google.co.UK/imgres
  ?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=CXBJodfLFbuDoM:&imgrefurl=http://www.extension.iastate.edu/it/support/vista/install.htm&docid=-Sy62vYE43NXgM&imgurl=http://www.extension.iastate.edu/NR/rdonlyres/F76E3CC5-FFC8-4525-8FDF-15749569A94C/53185/03format75.jpg&w=602&h=452&ei=AkpVUP9F6KXRBemogcgK&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=880&vpy=219&dur=171&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=183&ty=76&sig=116139560859664477618&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=200&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0,i:95
  * Windows Vista and Windows 7 are the same *.
  Now you have the driver (Advanced) Options
  You click on system reserved Partition and click clear, you should be able to remove it, if it isn't a copy of Windows xp and what to do since they...
  After that you have to do the same thing... format your main driver...
  There you go!
  Hope this has helped!
  If you have problems please leave a comment
  See you soon

  Hi Mohamed,

  Thanks for sharing of the resolution, because it would help the other members of the community to the same question.

• Remove the old hard drive's "system Reserved" partition

  I installed a new Seagate 1 TB hard drive and a new operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 32 - bit on my HP Pavilion a6500f PC.  I kept the old Seagate 500 GB disk, put it in an envelope and formatted to use as a unit of storage for backup of my drive.  However, when I open 'Computer' after having turned on the envelope I have 2 drives listed instead of one.  It says a (J) is the system reserved partition and the other (K) is the drive.  I put a picture to show what I mean.

  

  As you can see in the middle there are two partitions for the main drive (C), and the bottom shows the drive J and K.  What I want to know is how to get rid of this drive J so that all I have is the K left.

  Help will be greatly appreciated!

  Personally, I would use free mini tool to format the drive externally

  Of course you have formatted the other not the entire disk partition

  Reason to use the mini tool is that it is more user-friendly :)

  But you can drive system 6 reserved a right click and select Delete volume

  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

  https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JhHp2ZRWefk

• Can I delete the 100MB system reserved partition

  Is it possible to install windows 7 (clean install) without making an extra (hidden) "system reserved" partition of 100 MB?
  or how to remove this partition after installing?
  Why is it for?
  I have the sense that it slows down a bit my hard drive?

  Thank you

  Hi Johan G,.

  Thanks for posting to get ready for Windows 7.

  The 100 MB partition is a partition system and contains the boot files. Disk Manager does not allow you to delete this partition because they remove this partition could force the system to no boot.

  Thanks for posting your question to prepare for the community group Winodws 7.

  Kind regards

  Debbie
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Windows 10 we could not update the system reserved partition

  I have windows 7 Home Edition premium, no idea why it says windows 10 we could not update the partition system reserved when I try and update?

  • Make sure you have enough disk space.
  • Although the recommended minimum requirements are 16 GB (32-bit), 20 GB (64-bit), if you upgrade from a previous version of Windows or a previous version, you will need to have at least 40-50 GB of free space to accommodate the installation files.
  • First run Disk Clean up.
  • Archive files rarely used to an external hard drive.
  • Consider data synchronization to OneDrive or similar online service and do a custom installation.
  • Turn off (preferably uninstall) your Antivirus utility before you perform the upgrade.
  • Disable the general USB peripherals (for example - smart card reader).
  • Do a clean boot, and then try again.
  • If you upgrade to the. ISO file, disconnect from the Internet during the installation, if you are connected in LAN (Ethernet) or wireless, disable both and try the installation again.
  • If you update via Windows Update, when download reaches 100%, disconnect the Internet LAN (Ethernet) or wireless, and proceed with the installation.
  • If this does not work, try using the. ISO file to upgrade if possible.
  • If you are connected to a domain, go to a local account
  • If you have an external equipment, attached to the machine, unplug them (e.g., USB sticks, external hard drive, printers, peripheral non-essential).

  How to: upgrade previous versions of Windows using the file ISO for Windows 10

  Click on HERE to download ISO for 10 Microsoft Windows official media.

• Refresh the 10 7 window moved States we could not update the system reserved partition

  Hi I have windows 7 pro sp1 64-bit on a dell optiplex 960

  reserved for the windows install 10 tries to install each time at the beginning but the top

  Windows 10 update will not be installed, lt says "we couldn't update the system reserved partition."

  but does not display an error code

  I could use some help to fix this please?  I'm pretty useless on computers would be appreciated helping hand step by step

  Kind regards

  Tom

  Base partition to reduce the partition of Windows 7 front enough so to "Extend" the 350 MB system partition by using the unallocated space created by reducing the Windows partition.

  http://www.partition-tool.com/

  Note: Do not exceed 350 MB as a larger partition and can cause other problems especially after that it exceeds about 375 MB.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Limit of 2 TB on 2nd HARD drive, how to change without affecting the system reserved Partition?

  I have 2 drives - 240GB SSD where Windows is installed and a HD in Toshiba 3 TB of data.

  After installing Windows 7 for the SSD, it creates a system reserved 100 MB Toshiba hard disk partition. I now want to create a single data (d) on the Toshiba partition but disk management only limit myself to create a partition of 2 TB and a 746 GB partition. Past posts to dig suggests it's the MBR problem - then what can I do now to break this limit, without deleting or play with the 100MB system reserved partition?

  

  Hi YT :)

  You're right, that this problem is caused by the fact that your hard drive is cut using the style of partition table MBR, which allows only to create partitions to a maximum of 2 TB size each. In order to 'break' this limit, you must convert your hard drive in a GPT partition table, which does not have this limit (well, the limit to 128 TB then there it doesn't matter much). You can convert your hard disk from MBR to GPT without loss of data. Follow the instructions in the tutorial below:

  http://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-MBR-to-GPT-disk

  Method 2 and 3 explain how to perform the conversion without loss of data, method 3 is the easiest.

  Let me know if you have any questions.

  Yoan

• How free space on the partition system reserved when the usual FSUTIL USN DELETEJOURNAL command does not work?

  When you try to make the system images, I found that the system reserved (100 MB) partition can be a problem if it has less than 50 MB of free space.  In my case it was after execution of FSUTIL USN DELETEJOURNAL/d/n and 34 MB free disk space is only 40 MB.  I also tried without the flag/n.

  I had just restored the system from an image so I felt comfortable to make new changes.  I deleted the fonts and directories of different language from the startup directory (the directory of fonts took about 10 MB).

  I see a file name {hex 64 bit I think} in the System Volume Information directory, which was 32MB in size.  I tried to remove it but no luck.

  After you remove the fonts, and the other languages, I had a lot of free space to perform the system image.  I'm not comfortable actually using this image, go ahead yet, but I'm looking for someone who might know what is and isn't OK to do with this partition.  I would have done it 150 MB when I installed everything first if I had an idea I was going to suffer like that on a meager 18 MB.

  Thank you.

  Use one of the two utilities listed below to increase the size of the partition system 350 b.

  Partition Wizard Home Edition (free):
  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
  Note: There is also a CD bootable or versions of the bootable Flash drive:
  CD: http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
  Flash player: http://www.partitionwizard.com/bootable-flash-drive.html
  Among the features and functions: create partition, Delete partition, format partition,.
  A partition resize, move partitions, Partition recovery after an accidental deletion,.
  Convert the partition, partition Explore, Hide partition, disk surface test.
  Change the drive letter, a partition active Set, Explorer (content display) of the partition.
  Note: To achieve any task using the "Operations pending" box at the bottom or top left.

  Alternative to Partition Wizard (a bit easier to use, but Partition Wizard and EASEUS have almost identical user interfaces)
  EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition (free):
  http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
  How to create a bootable USB /Flash drive: http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/manage-partition/usb-partition-manager.htm
  Partition software ALL-IN-ONE and the most convenient hard disk partition manager Kit
  Includes Partition Manager, Disk & Partition copy Wizard and Partition MBR and GUID partition GPT disk recovery Wizard (table) on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 (32-bit and 64-bit).
  It allows users to resizePartition b, system drive extend, copy Disk & Partition, Partition merge, Split Partition, redistribute free space, convert dynamic disk, convert to disk GPT on the MBR, Partition Recovery and much more.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• How to remove/hide system reserved Partition

  
  Hello
  see it!... ? system reserved Partition, he wasn't there (was hidden), but now its here and tell me how to hide again... !! I created E drive by reducing the C drive (that is running another version of Windows), I guess I've changed some settings in disk management is why this F drive now shows on my computer, please help hide this new

  its boring to consider a partition in my computer, or I guess I'm supposed to save something to him so it better to hide.
  See what's in it. may help understand you. !
  

  Just remove the drive letter of the system reserved partition F. Then, it will be hidden.

  See this tutorial.

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/82994-drive-letter-add-change-remove-Windows.html