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System Reserved Partition Required?
Computer is a Studio XPS 9100 (Mid 2010). The OS is Win 8.1 64 bit. I am planning to install a Crucial M500 SSD as the boot drive. Is the System Reserved partition necessary when I migrate the disk image to the new SSD?
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Windows 8 requires a recovery and MSR and other partitions. The msr is usually at least 100 megs and the recovery is 350 megs. So on a 500 gig drive they need less than 500 megs for all of that so yes its required. The system and msr are not optional ever. Dell adds a recovery partition that is usually 15 gigs.