Backups failing was the symptom that clued me in that the system reserved partition was messed up again. However, with only 5 MB free, the volume shadow copy can’t be made, and the backup will error out. Well in the default configuration from a Windows install, there’s about 70MB free and everything backs up just fine. The problem with this problem, is that while the system works just fine, if you use Window’s image backup utilities (wbadmin), for a drive that’s smaller than 500MB, there must be at least 50MB free.
For whatever reason, the file filling the partition is completely invisible.
In both cases, at least so far as I can tell, Samsung’s tool renamed the 100MB System Reserved partition to “Data” and filled it until it had 5MB free. In both cases I used Samsung’s Migration Tool to copy the old drives to the new drives. So lets start with the back story of why I needed to do this.Ī few weeks ago I upgraded my Samsung 840 EVO to a new 850 EVO, and installed the 840 EVO in another computer here.
I’ve been googling this like crazy for the past couple of days to find out how rebuild a Windows 7 System Reserved partition.
