If one day after buying computer equipment or reinstalling the operating system, you go to My Computer and see an incomprehensible 100 or 350 megabyte hard drive there, do not be scared or surprised. The main thing is do not touch anything on it, and everything will be in order. If it bothers you and "corns" your eyes, then it is better to hide it to hell. Let's figure out how to remove the "Reserved by the system."
What it is?
First you need to understand what we are dealing with. System Reserved - What is it? You may encounter a similar problem exclusively in operating systems starting with Windows 7. In this case, the system reserves 100 megabytes on the hard disk to place boot files and data for encryption on it. How many times did users delete system files, so the computer stopped restarting? In modern operating systems, their creators decided to play it safe and hide such important data on a hidden system drive.
In Windows 8, the "Reserved by system" section takes up a little more - 350 megabytes. This is due to the fact that it also contains some files for restoring the operating system.
Origin
Where does this section come from? As far as advanced users know, despite the fact that the installation of Windows 7 is automatic, we still need to manage some actions. Including create partitions on your hard drive.
Imagine that you bought a new laptop with the Windows 8 operating system installed. You are far from a fan of this version and decide to reinstall the older “seven”. Insert the installation disk, and the first thing that catches your eye when you get to the partition manager are three named areas, one of which is ugly small and not indicated at all. What to do?
We will omit the description of converting partition formats from GPT to MBR and other preparations for reinstallation. But here's what you should know. If you delete all partitions of the hard drive and put it on a completely empty OS drive, it will automatically create a boot partition for itself, which will be hidden by default and the next time you reinstall it, you can again find it.
Invisibility
So, the installation of Windows 7 was successful, but you found a new hard drive on your computer. Why did it happen? In most cases, the section “Reserved by the system” appears due to the “crooked hands” of the programmer in pirated assemblies of the operating system. Fortunately, there is nothing to worry about when you encounter a similar problem. You have several options to choose from:
- Let it be as it is. Just do not touch this section, and nothing bad will happen to your computer.
- If you have a child who, out of ignorance, can get in there and screw up something, you can hide "Reserved by the system."
- There is a way to completely delete this partition by transferring files to the system drive. It is highly discouraged to do this, since the security level of your PC will greatly decrease.
In other words, “Reserved by the system” - what is it? This is the main engine of your personal computer, which drives all other basic programs. Depriving him of protection is an extremely ill-conceived and risky step.
Removing or ...
If you are interested in how to remove the "Reserved by the system", then think about whether you need this? This process will not free you extra space, but simply transfer data from one drive to another. You will have to change many settings of the computer and its registry. Moreover, you will need additional software and the so-called LiveCD. After all, the operating system will be "protected." She will not allow you to so easily delete data important to her. Worst of all, in the event of failure, your computer may simply refuse to boot or give a warning that the operating system was not found in principle.
But still...
It's time to move on to the question of how to remove the "Reserved by system." We already found out that deleting an existing boot partition will not do anything good. Therefore, if you still want to get rid of it, you have a chance to do this at the stage of installing the operating system. Before you start the following instructions, worry about the safety of your data. If your hard drive is divided into several parts, then all data must first be copied to removable media, otherwise they will be lost forever.
- Format the hard drive and delete all partitions.
- When installing the operating system, press Shift + F10. This command will open the command line for you.
- To begin, enter the diskpart command and confirm.
- Then enter: select disk 0.
- The final command will be: create partition primary.
- Close the command prompt and continue installing the system on this hard drive.
Section deleted
What have we achieved? The entire first hard drive is given to a single partition. Therefore, the system will not have the opportunity and free space to create a backup hard drive. What do we get?
Benefits:
- You will not see the "Reserved by system" section.
Disadvantages:
- OS security level decreases.
- You only have one partition on your hard drive, and as a result, this means that with big problems with the OS and reinstalling it, you may well lose your data.
- Inconvenience. Probably, most users have long been accustomed to the fact that they have several partitions on the HDD. You share your data - on one drive games and programs, on the other films, photos. On the third working documents.
As you can see, there are many more disadvantages than advantages. Is it worth deleting one section of such victims? However, they can be avoided by using a special partition manager utility, for example, the Partition Wizard. It will allow you to "cut off" part of the hard drive’s memory and create a new partition from it without data loss and damage to the operating system.
If you don’t want to spend time and effort reinstalling the operating system, then you only need to know how to remove the “Reserved by the system”, or rather hide it.
We remove the section
Now you can do the hiding of the callousing eyes of the section. How to remove "Reserved by system"? In fact, there is nothing complicated. We do not need any third-party software, but just need to follow the following steps.
- Open the "Start" menu and find the "Computer" button.
- We right-click on it and in the drop-down menu click on "Management".
- Before us opens the settings window. In the left column we find the sub-item "Disk Management".
- Right-click on the "Reserved by system" section. We are interested in the item "Change drive letter or drive path."
- A window appears in front of us, in which the letter designating this section will be indicated. Since the addressing in the computer memory is organized by this name, we need to delete it.
- Select the "letter" and click on the button below the "delete". We confirm.
Total
That's all, the extra section will disappear from the "My Computer" screen, but it will remain in the system, and this will not affect the operation of Windows. Now you know how to remove "Reserved by system." The only thing worth adding: to avoid unnecessary worries, only “operate” your computer on clean operating systems or simply back up data. You never know at what point in the instructions you are mistaken, and what this may lead to. You perform all operations at your own risk and be prepared to bear responsibility for what is done.