System Reserved partition on second drive

[Solsage]

I have an SSD with windows installed. My old HDD (which previously had windows) is reformatted and used as a storage drive.
But the systems reserve partition of 450mb on it cant be removed the same way.
I googled the problem and most say to use a 3rd party program. Any other way? which programs eo you recommend?

[_I_]

thats your boot drive, or it was for another system

pull the drive to make sure the pc will boot without it
if it does, you can remove that partition and expand the other to fill it

or use diskpart
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx
*(but dont activate, it will format the drive, and be sure to select the correct hdd)

[N0REGARD4LIFE]

I found that if u have a HDD hooked up when u install windows to ur SSD, windows will sometimes install your bootloader on your HDD with the rest of windows files on your SSD. So if that's the case, your system won't boot if u remove that HDD or if it goes out.

I had to redo my windows install with only my SSD hooked up so windows put everything on my SSD. Pretty stupid that windows makes this error during the installation even when u select the drive u want to boot from. And I was told to make sure ur SSD is in SATA port 1 during install as well. Don't know if that makes a difference, but I did it anyway.

[Kate]

Originally posted by N0REGARD4LIFE:

I found that if u have a HDD hooked up when u install windows to ur SSD, windows will sometimes install your bootloader on your HDD with the rest of windows files on your SSD. So if that's the case, your system won't boot if u remove that HDD or if it goes out.

I had to redo my windows install with only my SSD hooked up so windows put everything on my SSD. Pretty stupid that windows makes this error during the installation even when u select the drive u want to boot from. And I was told to make sure ur SSD is in SATA port 1 during install as well. Don't know if that makes a difference, but I did it anyway.

I had a similar case, cloned a Windows installation from a HDD to a SSD, and then installed Arch on the HDD. I'm not sure if the cloning (EaseUs partition wizard) or the Architect Installer were to blame (I'm leaning on the cloning), but I ended up without a boot partition on the SSD.

Anyway, booting from a Gparted LiveCD will let you do whatever you want with that partition: http://gparted.org/livecd.php
But since it's a separate hard drive, I'm sure you can just unmount it and use the stock windows volume manager to delete it (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Management).

[Solsage]

Originally posted by _I_:

thats your boot drive, or it was for another system

pull the drive to make sure the pc will boot without it
if it does, you can remove that partition and expand the other to fill it

or use diskpart
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx
*(but dont activate, it will format the drive, and be sure to select the correct hdd)

i installed windows 10 on my SSD with my HDD unplugged, i guess the reason was because before my ssd i had windows on that HDD drive.

ill give diskpart a try when i get back, thanks!

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by N0REGARD4LIFE:

I found that if u have a HDD hooked up when u install windows to ur SSD, windows will sometimes install your bootloader on your HDD with the rest of windows files on your SSD. So if that's the case, your system won't boot if u remove that HDD or if it goes out.

I had to redo my windows install with only my SSD hooked up so windows put everything on my SSD. Pretty stupid that windows makes this error during the installation even when u select the drive u want to boot from. And I was told to make sure ur SSD is in SATA port 1 during install as well. Don't know if that makes a difference, but I did it anyway.

I had a similar case, cloned a Windows installation from a HDD to a SSD, and then installed Arch on the HDD. I'm not sure if the cloning (EaseUs partition wizard) or the Architect Installer were to blame (I'm leaning on the cloning), but I ended up without a boot partition on the SSD.

Anyway, booting from a Gparted LiveCD will let you do whatever you want with that partition: http://gparted.org/livecd.php
But since it's a separate hard drive, I'm sure you can just unmount it and use the stock windows volume manager to delete it (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Management).

If disk part on cmd doesnt work ill gove that a try, thanks!
how does gparted work? is it just a software you open up or something else?

[Solsage]

I did the diskpart method and it successfully deleted the second HDD system reserve partition, was alot more easier than i expected.
Thanks for your help!