Low disk space on System Reserve

The first question is "Which C:\?" Windows 7 C:\ or Windows 8 C:\ - I guess Windows 7 C:\ In which case - the System Reserved volume is redundant since the Windows 7 C:\ is now the System disk.

Assuming you are in Windows 8 open Start, and type diskmgmt.msc and press enter. Make the Disk Management console full screen and make sure the Status column is wide enough to see the full entries. Hopefully the System Reserved volume will just be a Primary Partition, and the Windows 7 volume will be System, Active. Your C:\drive Windows 8 should be Boot, Crash Dump, Pagefile

press the Windows key and PrtSc together to take a screenshot, and post that here.
 

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Here is the screen shot.
DiskMngmt.jpg
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
I installed Windows 8 dual booting with Windows 7. Earlier I was having problem to install it. Then I followed this method
Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD - Windows 7 Forums
which allowed me to install Win8.
Everything is fine right now, except the system reserve itself is running low on disk space.
What should I do?

Hi g160689, Welcome to forums.

Are you looking to disable that warning notification balloon?

If yes, create a 32-bit or 64-bit DWORD value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, name it as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and set its value equal to 1. Hope this helps :)
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8 RP, Windows 7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP / Compaq 610
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo
    Screen Resolution
    1300x768
Are you looking to disable that warning notification balloon?

If yes, create a 32-bit or 64-bit DWORD value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, name it as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and set its value equal to 1. Hope this helps :)

Not at all, I would rather like to know why is the problem occurring and how to solve it. Just disabling the notification wont solve the problem.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
I think you need to extend your partition for that drive, anyway what you got after clicking that notification?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 RP, Windows 7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP / Compaq 610
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo
    Screen Resolution
    1300x768
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    Win 8.1
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    Acer Aspire E1-571
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    i5-3230m
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    Acer Type-2
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    8GB DDR3 1333MHz
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    Intel HD 4000
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    High Definiton Audio Device
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    Generic
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    Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
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    12.68Mbps
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