Solved Unallocated space as the first partition of my 250GB SSD.

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Dear everyone,

I just noticed a 101 MB Unallocated partition at the start of my SSD BOOT Drive. It works fine nevertheless.

Look below:
Unallocated Partition.JPG

In Diskpart it shows the following, it is "reserved":
Diskpart disk 0 partitions.JPG

Wasn't this supposed to be the 100MB "system" partition? Meaning if I like to run a Recovery from Partition 5, it would have been Partition 4 before the restore of Acronis? I am not sure what I am saying actually hehe. Should I leave the 101MB reserved or is there any possibility to successfully add this reserved space to the OS partition?

Now I am uncertain if this was here before I had to do a restore of my earlier made backup with Acronis True Image 2014. I always use the CD to boot and don't make any backups in Windows. I did read something on Acronis forums regarding this, but I am unfamiliar with all these technical details. Actually, all other partitions show up in the order as I had before the backup.

Does someone here know about this and if this is fine or can I run into "problems" with some programs or anything?

Well, after some more digging myself I found that partition 1 above should normally between the efi partition and the boot c system partition. So in my case between partition 2 and 3. But it is unallocated and partition 1? Hope this still can be fixed without needing to reinstall everything because that would be a disaster (for me at least).

EDIT & UPDATE: FOUND THE SAME PROBLEM AS I HAVE HERE https://forum.acronis.com/forum/60129

But it is still a bit too complicated for me to grasp. Maybe with some great help we could solve this.
 
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I hope there is at least someone who can inform me if the above is correct or not..... I don't know myself but something is telling me it can be different.
 

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Don't mess with it. Windows uses it.
 

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    Win 10 Pro x64
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    PC/Desktop
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    Self Built
    CPU
    Intel I5-2500K @3.3GHz
    Motherboard
    Asrock P67 Extreme4
    Memory
    16GB G.Skill Ripjaws X (4x4GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 750 Ti SC 2GB
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar DG 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
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    auria eq2367
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    250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
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    Corsair Obsidian 750D
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    RAM: Crucial 8Gb (2x4Gb) /
    SSD: Crucial M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device/ FW 000F /
    GFX: AMD Radeon HD 6520G /
    OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
Hey folks ... if you look closely at the Disk Management screenshot, you will see 5 partitions PLUS the unallocated 101MB space.

The "reserved" in the Diskpart output is NOT referring to that 101MB of unallocated space.
 

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Mark Phelps said:
Hey folks ... if you look closely at the Disk Management screenshot, you will see 5 partitions PLUS the unallocated 101MB space.
Click to expand...

Looks like 4 plus the unallocated to me...

65928d1444606441-unallocated-space-first-partition-my-250gb-ssd-unallocated-partition.jpg


Mark Phelps said:
The "reserved" in the Diskpart output is NOT referring to that 101MB of unallocated space.
Click to expand...

What is it referring to then?
 

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    Win 10 Pro x64
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    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    Intel I5-2500K @3.3GHz
    Motherboard
    Asrock P67 Extreme4
    Memory
    16GB G.Skill Ripjaws X (4x4GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 750 Ti SC 2GB
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar DG 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
    Monitor(s) Displays
    auria eq2367
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
    1TB WD Blue
    1TB Hitachi
    PSU
    SeaSonic X 650W 80 Plus Gold
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian 750D
    Cooling
    Corsair H60, Three 140mm case fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Keyboard K520
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless Mouse M310
    Internet Speed
    Wave Broadband ~ 100 dn 5 up
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    Chrome
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    Defender, Malwarebytes Premium
    Other Info
    Laptop specs: HP g7-1365dx /
    CPU: AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics /
    RAM: Crucial 8Gb (2x4Gb) /
    SSD: Crucial M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device/ FW 000F /
    GFX: AMD Radeon HD 6520G /
    OS: Windows 10 Pro x64

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    Dell Studio XPS 9100
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    24 Gig
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    ATI Radeon HD 5670
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    Mid
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    3.84 Mbps Download .44 Mbps Upload
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This is why I got rid of Acronis, Even with the 2014 version they still could not correctly restore a UEFI OS Disk reliably. To the OP if all is working I wouldn't worry about it.
 

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro MC
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus G75VW / Z97 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-3610QM / I7-4790K
    Motherboard
    Z97 Pro
    Memory
    16 GB Hyundai HTM315156CFR8C-PB PC3-12800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M (GF114M)
    Sound Card
    VIA 6.0.10.1600
    Screen Resolution
    1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 Pro 256, Samsung 850 Pro 1TB
    Internet Speed
    30 down 3 up
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    Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    NIS and Malwarebytes
Well I fixed it with great and personal thanks to a man called "Mustang" on Acronis Forums. He helped me thoroughly with all steps necessary to resolve this. It wasn't really easy for me since I knew nothing about WinPE, MSR and EFI partitions in particular (a lot more now) and bootdisks with plugins for acronis etc.

What I did was to load WinPE with acronis plugin. Wiped the whole SSD drive with diskpart. Then created all the partitions as they originally need to be, e.g. that what Win 8.1 makes as default during a new installation. And then manually restored all the partitions one by one and that worked!!!

Look now :

Disk Management Partitions Notebook Asus N751JX-T3074H.JPG

I am happy again now because this is how it should be. I also will NEVER use any Acronis product anymore (at least not until they fix this crap by restoring a GPT partition as it should) and will look for something else for now. Thanks everyone! Case solved hehehe.
 
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  • OS
    Win 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
Well I heard that in 2015 about 4 rev in they actually fixed the issues. However I'll never go back to Acronis even though its cheaper. They won't supply any tech support and if you do actually get tech support to work with you, there useless and aggravating. Macrium Reflect has very few issues and tech support if you find one and it free unless you want to use it for File and folder back ups.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro MC
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus G75VW / Z97 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-3610QM / I7-4790K
    Motherboard
    Z97 Pro
    Memory
    16 GB Hyundai HTM315156CFR8C-PB PC3-12800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M (GF114M)
    Sound Card
    VIA 6.0.10.1600
    Screen Resolution
    1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 Pro 256, Samsung 850 Pro 1TB
    Internet Speed
    30 down 3 up
    Browser
    Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    NIS and Malwarebytes
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