Friday, 15 February 2019

windows 7 - System Reserved too full, how to reduce/recreate?


I wanted to create a system image, but I got the "not enough disk space" error. The target disk is more than big enough, so it must be the source. I followed this article, and deleted the journal from the System Reserved partition, but still only 5% is free from the 100MB.



fsutil usn deletejournal /N /D Q:



Normally around 70% is free. I want to get there, and the article did not help.


I have a recovery disk, how can I format the System Reserved partition?
Is it safe? Or how else can I reset it?



Answer



I still do not know what used up so much space.
However, I booted from a Linux pendrive, formatted the System Reserved to NTFS, set it active, and then I just used the Windows Install pendrive to repair the boot partition.


I was able to create a system image without a problem now.


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