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No System Reserved Partition

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I noticed that I don't have a option to include the system reserved partition in my system disk backup. (Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, AMD processor.) After further investigation, it seems that I have no such partition.

Additional research on MS tech forums indicates that it is, indeed, possible to have Win7 run without this partition. Conditions that may produce this include installing Windows on a drive that already has partitions, installing with two drives present (in which case the system partition/boot records may end up on the other driver), installing with a removable drive present (in which case the boot info may end up on the removable drive), etc.

I strongly suspect that this is what happened to me -- two new drives at once and when it didn't boot, I probably repaired the drive using fixmbr, startup repair, and the like. Long time ago so I can't be sure....

Anyway, I haven't yet made a system backup. Does anyone know if a system partition backup with no system reserved partition is likely to recoverable?

Thanks.

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If your system is currently bootable, then a new full disk backup should provide all you need to duplicate/restore your system to a new drive. A new backup would be an image of the changed structure so a restore would simply duplicate your current system. Certainly, it is something you might want to test but the situation should not be an issue.