You have two system reserved files, but you're unsure about their origin.
You have two system reserved files, but you're unsure about their origin.
drive on my 500GB SSD and was transferring my OS from that to the 120GB SSD. Now I’m trying to clone the 500GB SSD to a new 1TB main storage device. I’m not sure if I should clone over the drive, as it seems a bit disorganized. These drives have their own allocated space for reference.
My storage setup seems a little unusual. I have a standard boot disk but in my configuration it appears to be just the 120GB NVMe drive. The folders you see in Windows File Explorer now point to a different location, which means they’re being downloaded to another drive—specifically the 500GB SATA SSD. I’ve never experienced problems until recently when I was cloning drives. I created a second system-reserved (D drive on my 500GB SSD and was transferring my OS from that to the 120GB SSD. Now I’m trying to clone the 500GB SSD to a new 1TB main storage device. I’m not sure if I should clone over the drive, as it seems a bit disorganized. These drives have their own allocated space for reference.
A basic test would involve taking out or disconnecting all disks except Disk 3 (and sure to power off the machine), then checking if your computer starts up. If it doesn’t, simply reconnect them. The tool indicates that System Reserved on Disk 3 is labeled "boot," while "C:" shows "Active & System," which should be the installation location for Windows.
Tomcastle88
08-19-2016, 03:33 AM #5Nothing to worry about, I did it. It seems okay to copy the larger partition to the E drive and keep the rest if it’s marked as active. That usually means it’s linked to the main boot drive.
BlossomingMoon
08-19-2016, 05:25 AM #6These partitions can be safely cloned or removed. Because D isn’t using much space, there’s minimal loss even if it stays behind. "Active" refers to being bootable, so you could set it as the boot device in BIOS. It doesn’t mean this is the original boot drive, as it was previously your system drive—likely left over when you made Disk 3 your boot device.
SquishyJelly3
08-27-2016, 12:04 AM #7You were correct. I removed all partitions from the old SSD and then made a clone. Windows couldn't distinguish between them, but another user assisted me. After swapping the drive letters back to their original order and wiping the process, everything functioned properly after rebooting. Now I'm facing the problem where certain folders can't be deleted from the old SSD, and Windows seems to keep adding them again.