Moving System Reserved partition to a different drive | [image]

[MikeC]

I currently have one drive that contains a System Reserved partition (which includes the boot files). The status is System, Active, Primary Partition.

I have another drive with the C: partition. The status is Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition.

I've been told that if I remove the disk (it's a bit flaky) with the System Reserved partition, I won't be able to boot up. If this is true, is it possible to transfer that partition to another drive? If so, does it have to be at the start of the drive?

Alternatively, can I make the C: partition include System status?

 

[Trouble]

I've been told that if I remove the disk (it's a bit flaky) with the System Reserved partition, I won't be able to boot up

That may be accurate or not, a simple test....
turn off the computer and remove the power and or interface cable from the 1 terabyte drive. Try to start your computer and see if Windows loads, if not.... then that answers that.

Typically I use the free version of Easy BCD http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/basics/changing-the-boot-partition/
To alter my boot configuration files although rarely now, since I preconfigure and preformat my drive / partition for installations using DiskPart and F10 at the beginning of the installation process.