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System Reserve

Aug 15, 2009 8:54AM PDT

I have a drive F system reserve. I have no idea what it is. It contains hidden files like %recycle% boot etc. that are on the C drive. If an object is sent to the recycle bin it appears in both drives. Is this a necessary setup in Win 7? I have two drives but this is 99mb seperate from the two drives. Thanks.

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cool new Emergency Restore feature.
Aug 18, 2009 4:20AM PDT

Hi,

To answer your question, yes, all computers that are running windows 7 have a "system Reserve". The System reserve works as an Emergency Restore feature. If your computer ever has a boot problem the section of the disk allows you to run a Scan that will fix what my be causing the problem. This part of your hard drive cannot be deleted, formatted or expanded. Files cannot be Added or Removed Manually from the part of the hard drive this is for Windows 7 own personal use.

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System Reserve and disk defrag - select disks for scheduler
Aug 24, 2010 5:25PM PDT

By default (or so it seems) Windows 7 (in my case W7 Pro) when opening disk defragmenter utility, then accessing the defragmenter's "configure schedule..." (the "..." indicates some added text remains to be seen, but I find no means to access the added text for that button's description, seems to be typical MS results for rather incompletely tested and/or untested and to some degree, poorly released software, so does anyone know what else the button's description is supposed to say, ie; in it's entirity?).

I digress, back to that button's resulting window (titled "Disk Defragmenter: Modify Schedule"), again by default this window's tick boxes ie; each tick box referring to individual drives present on the system, plus the "system reserve" (which I find not so much as a hover note or other explanation for "system reserve" until I Google it and there I find 'SR' is W7's default 100Mb hidden recovery partion, but it seems that defragging such a small partition would be either unmeaningful and/or bordering on ridicuolous.

Whether or not to defrag the system reserved partion might be significant, probably not, but what might the experienced user choose to do (defrag it or not) and why?