This is confusing because Microsoft itself refers to a "system" partition as two different things - sometimes meaning the OS partition (C:) and sometimes the System Reserved partition, which holds boot and recovery files for OS's W7/2008R2 and later. Normally, this refers to one of the following: Reserved ('System' Reserved), OEM (OEM Reserved if OEM installed), or Recovery (on a server this is NOT an OS recovery partition like you would find on a consumer machine allowing you to restore a factory image of the OS - it merely contains the Windows Recovery Environment).
Your Recovery partition should be mostly empty and should be usable for BitLocker.
dblginca
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February 25th, 2016 21:00
Really could use an answer on this
theflash1932
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February 28th, 2016 09:00
This is confusing because Microsoft itself refers to a "system" partition as two different things - sometimes meaning the OS partition (C:) and sometimes the System Reserved partition, which holds boot and recovery files for OS's W7/2008R2 and later. Normally, this refers to one of the following: Reserved ('System' Reserved), OEM (OEM Reserved if OEM installed), or Recovery (on a server this is NOT an OS recovery partition like you would find on a consumer machine allowing you to restore a factory image of the OS - it merely contains the Windows Recovery Environment).
Your Recovery partition should be mostly empty and should be usable for BitLocker.