The partition will most likely be displayed as “100 MB Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)” (Windows 8 will show “350 MB” for the size) and be located at the start of the drive, prior to the Windows partition.

Right-click on the System Reserved partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths… from the pop-up menu.

Press WinKey+R, type diskmgmt.msc into the Open box,press OK.

Use Disk Management to assign a letter to the System Reserved Partition.

Remove the System Reserved partition (optional).

Apply the necessary BCD file corrections,.

Copy the Windows booting files and Windows RE (Windows 8 only) to the Windows partition,.

Simply put, the process will look as follows: (It can be fixed with third party software, including using a boot manager, though)

If installed in a logical partition, after removing the SRP, the system will not be bootable.

The partition containing Windows should be a primary partition.

Bitlocker should not be used and you should noty plan using it at a later date.

This limitation does not apply to Windows 8/2012

For Windows 7/2008R2 The boot files need to reside on a NTFS partition with the cluster size of 4Kb (the default size).

UEFI systems with GPT partitions are not supported.

Windows OS is installed on a MBR Volume.

Please note that this operation will be successful only if all the prerequisites are satisfied and AppAssure Support cannot take any responsibility in the outcome. The radical solution is removing the SRP altogether.

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Increase system reserved partition