Move System Reserved partition to another disk

In this video I will take you through the steps to move the System Reserved partition from one hard disk to another.

[russellbarry]

I just want to say a big THANKYOU for this. I have struggled with this problem for the past 2 days and there is so much bad info out there on how to do this. You are the first that explained the right way to do this.

[Vanyajeevi]

I had exactly the same issue, my primary SSD had bad sectors and I got a new SSD, to make sure new SSD is healthy, I connected it to the PC and ran few checks. After that I reinstalled OS on the new SSD and after few hours I realised the mess i was in… I checked in YouTube and after going through few unrelated issues landed on this link…. Blindly followed the process and got the issue resolved… thank you for the great tutorial 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐

[dkcountryliving]

This is great - very clear and to the point without too many detail. Great job!

[kekq]

followed you, just because you did this to help people. That deserves something. Thanks!

[aaronthewhiz]

Thank you so much! I went for days and through dozens of videos and forums and this was the one that saved

[MrSiloterio]

Finally! I tried other third-party stuff like EaseUS and Aomei and found them extremely cumbersome and cluttered. This right here solved my System Reserve Partition move problem. I didn't even follow the steps for changing recovery drive since it is already in my preferred disk. I just followed the changing of system reserved and it worked flawlessly. Thank you very much!

[algset]

Thank you so much, I was looking for a solution to my issue everywhere, someone told me I have to reinstall windows, I was like what!! bro your explanation is just so simple and so clear and so effective, thank you again.

[tamastoth]

I was using a GPT formatted disk for this issue and with a bit of help from chatgpt I got it working. The disk on its own is not said as Primary Partition instead Basic Data Partition and the new 1 GB of space you create will be called data partition and you also can not set it to active. You also don't have to disable the other disks system partition just unplug it at the next restart so the system doesn't even search it. When you list the partitions in DISKPART you will get the Type correctly listing system instead of Primary like in the video. The partitions Type is different on GPT so instead of 27 FOR ME it was EFI System partition: (that's the ID you need). It may wary so you can enter the HELP SET command and it lists everything you need. I'm not a pro so this may not be correct information for everyone, make sure to check online for more guides if you're unsure.

[memelasmelas]

My man, huge thank you for this video. I was unable to install Windows 11 as my drive was set up as an MBR. When trying to use the MBR2GPT tool I always got validation errors even though I was attempting to use it on my OS drive and had less than three partitions. I noticed that my boot drive was on a different disk than my OS drive which cause the tool to fail. I transferred the boot drive to the OS drive and I can happily say my system is finally updated to Windows 11. ¡MASSIVE THANKS AGAIN!

[Google_Offical]

THANK YOU JESUS my hard drive was coming to its end and the drive had the system reserved on it and this tutorial HELPED still works BTY.

[Ledd_Official]

Holy shit, THANK YOU. Seriously no way I could've done this without this video

[abhisheksinghnepal]

A big thanks to you as I was not expecting someone will ever explain it which I was searching for a long time. Finally I found what I was actually looking for... A big relief for me now.... 🤗 It would have been great if I could get all the "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" to the SSD which I recently inserted by replacing Even I installed windows to my SSD, all these "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" was still in HDD and as my HDD had some issues, it shows that no bootable device found in the startup 😢.... Now I got to know this was the exact reason why I was facing the issue...

[solomonfried]

Wow!! This helped. I just went through 2 days of work installing windows and all my apps on to a new SSD after I was unable to boot off my current one (possibly a corrupt boot sector).
After all that work, I began to clean up the other drives that were on the workstation. Everything looked great and I shut down.
When I tried to restart, the system would not boot. I went to a recovery command windows and, using Diskpart, discovered that there was not boot sector or information on the new drive.
I found this post and realized that I had already formatted the drive that had help my boot information.
I then removed all my drives and left the old drive in.
I installed windows 11 to that drive.
I then reattached my new drive where I had previously installed windows and all my apps.
I booted from the Windows start USB (or DVD), and opened the Console again.

What I found is that Windows did not create a System Partition on the new bootable installation. Instead in place all the boot files on the single Primary Partition.
I found those file (dir /a:h /a:s....) and copied them to the Primary (and only) partition on my target drive. You may need to clear the System, Hidden attributes to do this, and then reset them on the target after the copy.
I removed the temporary windows installation drive.
I was able to see the new drive as bootable in my BIOS (positive sign!!!)
When I rebooted, windows could not start and presented a message suggesting that I start from recovery disk.
I started again from the installation USB and went to "Repair" . It immediately rebooted.
I removed the installation USB and it booted from the new Drive.

Is it OK to have everything on my Primary partition? Disk Management shows a single partition marked System, Boot, Page File, Active, Dump, Primary Partition)
Should I shrink that and move everything to a separate partition, or just leave it alone.

[mazdabass]

THANK YOU!!! 3 weeks and everyone I ask looking at me like I have 2 heads when I asked for help on this. you are a life saver

[vitorgabrielh]

you saved me, so many turorials and nothing, my HD has reading problems so i want to remove this HD but my boot was in there somehow and i found your video just in time, thank you!!!

[johnwilkerson]

Amazing! I am so glad that I found this video. Straight forward and easy to understand no matter what your level.

[theapplecanfly]

I just want to move system reserved to my other disk because recovery partition is already in the right place

[benreddington]

Thank you! Short, sweet, understandable. Solved my problem!

[ashanserasinghe]

This made my PC unbootable. It gave the error "No bootable device found" at the start. If someone went into the same issue after following the above steps you can recover the system with a Windows DVD or a bootable USB. Plug in the bootable device and boot from that device. Then go to the repair. Where you can open a command prompt and reverse what you have done previously. (just activating the old 'active' partition and making the newly activated partition 'inactive').

[zachdahlgren]

Fixed my issue I had been struggling with all day! Couldn't get my cloned drive to boot then I noticed the system and boot partitions were on different drives. Thanks a lot