Created a partition for Windows 10 on the drive where it wasn’t installed initially.
Created a partition for Windows 10 on the drive where it wasn’t installed initially.
I've been working on assembling computers for years, yet it took a while before I got a fresh motherboard until I assembled my latest Ryzen 7 setup yesterday. My system includes three drives: a 512GB Intel M.2 (DISK 2), a 512GB Samsung SATA SSD (DISK 0), and a 1TB SATA SSD (DISK 1). After booting from my flash drive to install Windows, I cleared all partitions on every drive to start anew. I instructed Windows to place itself on the Intel M.2 drive. However, when I opened Windows 10 (Home edition), it created a 579 MB partition on my 512GB Samsung SSD. My plan was to run Windows 10 on the Intel M.2 SSD and Linux on the Samsung drive, then simply switch the boot device in BIOS whenever needed—no need to juggle Grub or other boot loaders.
What’s this “System Reserved” partition? If I had data on that drive I wanted to retain, would Windows 10 have overwritten it without prompting? I suspect this relates to UEFI and Windows 10’s secure boot features, which I’m not very familiar with since I haven’t built a new system in a long time. Could you help me understand this better?
Windows puts the recovery/boot partition on the first drive it finds. To prevent this only have the drive you want Windows installed to connected during installation. No. It will only resize the partition if there is enough free space.