How to move 100mb hidden system reserved partition on Windows Server 2008 R2 to other drive?

Posted by Artyom Krivokrisenko on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Artyom Krivokrisenko
Published on 2010-12-30T20:05:41Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 20:56 UTC
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Hello!

I have a server with two 1.5TB hard drives. I was going to install a Windows Server 2008 R2 and create software RAID1 using Windows Disk Management Utility.

I instaleld Windows, open this console and that is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/KoC9a.png

Setup program created a System Reserved Partition at my second HDD.

I don't understand now, how can I create RAID1, because space, which supposed to be used for copy of disk C, now is used for this hidden partition.

So is there any way now to create correct RAID1? May it is possible to move this partition to the Disk 0, where I have plenty of free space?

Unfortunately I can't reinstall Windows and apply other options at the disk management step of the installation, because installation image is not longer connected to the server and I have no physical access to server, only remote desktop.

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