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Windows 7 System Reserved partition

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My laptop has Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I have just installed a larger WD drive. I cloned my old drive using TIH 2011. I then deleted the recovery partition created by the clone on the new drive to gain space and I have already created recovery backup disks anyway. I then moved all the remaining partitions using DDH 2011, including the system reserved partition, and resized only the last partition to make use of the extra space.

Two questions, please.

1. Can I take it that TIH 2011 and DDH 2011 will have aligned the partitions correctly?

2. The system reserved partition is now showing up in Windows Explorer. Is that normal and OK?

TIA

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1. Not necessarily. It is probable that ATI resized the partitions when you moved to the larger drive and it is possible the offset has changed. Check this by running mscinfo32.exe, look at components, storage, disks. Check out the partition offset for each partition. It should be divisible by 4096, when expressed in bytes.

2. Search for disk management, In the disk management console, right click to change the path and drive letter. Remove the letter. It is not a problem to have the letter anyway.