
Situation 2: The disk containing system reserved partition is experiencing smart error Also, you may find nothing in system reserved partition on disk 1. Therefore, to ensure your disk can boot properly, you have to merge system reserved partition with C drive on disk 1. If you remove disk 2, your computer will fail to boot. Then, you may find your C drive on disk 1 and system reserved partition on disk 2. Sometimes, you may forget to disconnect extra hard drive when you clone disk or install Windows 7/8/10. Situation 1: The system reserved partition on wrong drive Then, let's have a closer look at these situations. But if the system reserved partition is on wrong drive or the disk is experiencing smart error, you have to do so.

Your computer boots the unencrypted System Reserved partition, and it will decrypt the main encrypted drive and boot the encrypted Windows system.Ģ situations to move system reserved partition to another diskīy default, it's not suggested to move system reserved partition in Windows 10/8/7. If you ever decide to encrypt your hard drive with BitLocker drive encryption, the System Reserved partition contains the necessary files for starting your computer. The startup files used for BitLocker Drive Encryption. At last, the Windows will boot from your system drive.Ģ. Then, your computer will boot the bootloader off the System Reserved partition. When your computer boots, the Windows Boot Manager starts up and reads the boot data from the Boot Configuration Data (BCD). The Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data. It contains two important things for computer startup.ġ. Before that, let's get basic of system reserved partition. To avoid this situation, you need to move system reserved partition to another drive.


System reserved partition contains boot files that is required to start Windows, so your computer will not boot if this partition is missing.
