System Reserved Partition in Windows 7/2008July 23rd, 2010 by brianl
Windows 7/2008 setup creates a new type of partition called “System Reserved Parition”. This partition holds a few key files required to boot in case Bitlocker is utilized (since Windows cannot boot from an encrypted drive).
If you do not use Bitlocker (which is probably always), you can safely remove the System Reserved Partition by following the instructions in step #4 of the following post:
You can also avoid Windows setup from creating the parition to begin with by following Method 3 in the following post:
However, since most new machines will ship with the partition already created (and deleting it seems a bit “hackerish”), I would leave it alone. Just make sure to back it up once and set it aside.
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