2 system reserved partitions after migrating OS

DerKatz

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Hi,

I migrated my hard drive using Paragon which was running Windows 8 a few days ago from my 500GB to my 3TB hard drive. It worked fine for a while however it's now been acting up recently. I noticed that the system reserved partition on my new hard disc (G: ) is only "Active, Primary Partition" and I still have a system reserved partition on my old hard disc (E: ) which is "System, Active, Primary Partition" so I'm guessing it's still somehow tied to my OS (even though I formatted my old hard disc as I want to set up a dual-boot system with Linux Mint), and the fact that whenever I start up my computer it says it's repairing E:.

windows8harddrive.png

Does anyone have a solution on what to do to make it so the system reserved G: partition is the "System, Active, Primary Partition" and how I can merge/format the E: and F: partitions on my old hard drive after? Thanks.

P.S And yeah I know the little mistake I made with the 3TB drive only being recognised as 2TB.
 

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Theog, considering the quote, would it not be better to get the OP to change the system partition to the first drive by changing the drive order in the bios? Once that is changed, it should be easy to remove the second System reserved partition.

But, of course, the question of changing the configuration of the 3 TB drive to GPT, so all of the drive can be used, is still a problem. That will also wipe out the current install on that drive so the old install may still be needed to remake the install.

If the install will stay as Legacy, which cannot be done to a GPT configured drive in Windows, more questions come to mind.

OVERRIDE Enables DiskPart to delete any partition regardless of type.
Typically, DiskPart only permits you to delete known data
partitions.

You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition
that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump) filed.

A partition must be selected for this operation to succeed.

Partitions cannot be deleted from dynamic disks or created on dynamic
disks.
 

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I think that I would Create a Repair disc:http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2855-system-repair-disc-create-windows-8-a.html .
Then unplug the 500gb drive (just remove the SATA cable). Boot the computer to see if Win8 will automatically fix the issue of making the System Reserved(g: ) active. If not boot from the repair disc and see if it will make G: active automatically. If all boots well at that point you can then reconnect the cable to the 500gb drive and because it is no longer the System drive you should be able to delete it in Disk Management.

Note: I don't have UEFI so that may still be a consideration as Saltgrass described. I just wanted to give a process that should write the BCD to put drive G: as the proper System Reserved partition allowing you to eventually use the whole of the second HD for Linux.
 

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I think that I would Create a Repair disc:http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2855-system-repair-disc-create-windows-8-a.html .
Then unplug the 500gb drive (just remove the SATA cable). Boot the computer to see if Win8 will automatically fix the issue of making the System Reserved(g: ) active. If not boot from the repair disc and see if it will make G: active automatically. If all boots well at that point you can then reconnect the cable to the 500gb drive and because it is no longer the System drive you should be able to delete it in Disk Management.

Note: I don't have UEFI so that may still be a consideration as Saltgrass described. I just wanted to give a process that should write the BCD to put drive G: as the proper System Reserved partition allowing you to eventually use the whole of the second HD for Linux.

I unplugged the 500gb drive. Everythings worked fine (disk didn't need to repair itself or anything), but when I went to check in the disk management my system reserved partition it still only says Active, Primary Partition no System.

Edit: Nevermind the system reserved partition has System now after I did a few things in the bios.

disk1.png
 

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Theog, considering the quote, would it not be better to get the OP to change the system partition to the first drive by changing the drive order in the bios? Once that is changed, it should be easy to remove the second System reserved partition.

But, of course, the question of changing the configuration of the 3 TB drive to GPT, so all of the drive can be used, is still a problem. That will also wipe out the current install on that drive so the old install may still be needed to remake the install.

If the install will stay as Legacy, which cannot be done to a GPT configured drive in Windows, more questions come to mind.

OVERRIDE Enables DiskPart to delete any partition regardless of type.
Typically, DiskPart only permits you to delete known data
partitions.

You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition
that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump) filed.

A partition must be selected for this operation to succeed.

Partitions cannot be deleted from dynamic disks or created on dynamic
disks.

Hi Saltgrass

I personally would install to the 500gb HDD in UEFI mode & use the 3tb HHD for DATA.
 

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Well this is what my disk management looks like at the moment:

disk1.png

Ideally I'd like to use Paragon again to migrate Disk 0 back to Disk 1 but when I get to the stage where it shows me what the new partitions will look like it'll create the 750gb partition of unallocated space again which isn't ideal.
 

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I'm hoping someone can give specific advice but I believe the problem would be the 2.2tb limit to a Basic/MBR partitioning scheme on the 3tb HD. It has to be formatted/partitioned as a GPT disk to use all the space. I don't have a UEFI based computer so I can't explain from experience but I believe Paragon should be able to convert the disk to GPT and then clone the OS using the full drive.

Or you could clone again giving the 750gb unallocated and then convert the drive making the 750gb available. I know Partition Wizard and Easeus free partition manager versions can convert between MBR/GPT disks without data loss and Paragon should be able to do the same.
 

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I'm hoping someone can give specific advice but I believe the problem would be the 2.2tb limit to a Basic/MBR partitioning scheme on the 3tb HD. It has to be formatted/partitioned as a GPT disk to use all the space. I don't have a UEFI based computer so I can't explain from experience but I believe Paragon should be able to convert the disk to GPT and then clone the OS using the full drive.

Or you could clone again giving the 750gb unallocated and then convert the drive making the 750gb available. I know Partition Wizard and Easeus free partition manager versions can convert between MBR/GPT disks without data loss and Paragon should be able to do the same.

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I'm hoping someone can give specific advice but I believe the problem would be the 2.2tb limit to a Basic/MBR partitioning scheme on the 3tb HD. It has to be formatted/partitioned as a GPT disk to use all the space. I don't have a UEFI based computer so I can't explain from experience but I believe Paragon should be able to convert the disk to GPT and then clone the OS using the full drive.

Or you could clone again giving the 750gb unallocated and then convert the drive making the 750gb available. I know Partition Wizard and Easeus free partition manager versions can convert between MBR/GPT disks without data loss and Paragon should be able to do the same.

I followed the advice in this thread: 3TB now 2TB. How do I get my 3TB Back? - Seagate Community Forums

I formatted the 3TB drive in GBT too but in Paragon when it transfers the OS it'll still create a 750GB unallocated partition.
 

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Do you have a UEFI/BIOS firmware motherboard?
 

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I would get away from Mint and go to the latest versions of Ubuntu. It will install as Legacy or UEFI and even be compatible with the Windows 8 secure Boot. You could then set both drives as GPT and install however you wanted.

Edit: Or install both OSes as Legacy on the current small drive and leave the 3 TB for data.
 

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I installed Windows 8 UEFI on my 3TB drive. When I looked in disk management whilst running W8 on the 3TB drive it showed that it formatted correctly. When I went back on my 500GB drive,the 3TB drive just shows as a plain partition again, plus I had some new problems after, such as Firefox not working correctly and having to reset it, and windows 8 type in search feature broke.
 

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Ok.. I had to run through "Windows Boot Manager" in bios to get to my 3TB W8 OS, I don't even know what that is. (Windows 8 Type-In Search works fine on the 3TB disc by the way)

This is what my 3TB drive looks like when I'm running that. 3tbsg.png
This is what it looks like on my 500GB drive.DISKFFS.png

Someone please help.. this is getting outside my area of knowledge. Would it just be easier to do a full reformat and manually transfer all my files?
 

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From my perspective, I am a little confused as to your current situation and where you want to end up.

Did you install Windows 8 on the 3 TB decided you did not want that because of some errors? Did you just install and re-install your programs, or try to copy old stuff over?

I of course, would only use around 150 GB for a Windows 8 OS partition, but that might not be relevant right now. Tell us, if you have decided to install Windows 8 on the 3 TB drive, exactly what you are doing to make that happen. Drive letters will show up differently depending on which OS has been booted into. You probably need to remove the small drive until you get your Windows 8 install where you want it.
 

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    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
From my perspective, I am a little confused as to your current situation and where you want to end up.

Did you install Windows 8 on the 3 TB decided you did not want that because of some errors? Did you just install and re-install your programs, or try to copy old stuff over?

I want to migrate my OS to a 3TB drive. I did that with Paragon but I didn't realise that it would leave around 750GB of unallocated space after. After around 2 days of using the 3TB to boot it started having booting problems saying the OS was broken - I thought this was because the System System Reserved partition was still on my 500GB hdd.

I want to end up where I'll have W8 on my 3TB drive with no unallocated partition and have Linux installed for a dual-boot system on my 500GB drive.

I of course, would only use around 150 GB for a Windows 8 OS partition, but that might not be relevant right now. Tell us, if you have decided to install Windows 8 on the 3 TB drive, exactly what you are doing to make that happen. Drive letters will show up differently depending on which OS has been booted into. You probably need to remove the small drive until you get your Windows 8 install where you want it.

I followed this: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

As Paragon can't migrate to hdd's over 3TB without creating unallocated partitions I'm now manually just transferring all of my files over from the 500GB drive back to the 3TB drive after doing the UEFI format/install. I didn't want to do this as it's just a major hassle and a last resort if I couldn't find any other solution.
 

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