Here is some info explaining the System Reserved Partition
It also explains that you don't need it unless you plan on using BitLocker to do a whole drive lock.
If it is 'active', then it contains boot information. Deleting it arbitratily would result in a non-bootable system.
russghostlover wrote:Hi Community
I have been using Ghost for a few years now and this is the second crash I have recovered from. Although, from what I remember, Ghost 15 seems to do it differently to Ghost 14.
So after I read the post last night and printed out Deric's step by step guide (on another PC), I pulled out the new drive, plugged it into the second PC, unallocated the new drive, replaced it in my PC and just did a restore (using SRD) of the C drive overnight and a D drive this morning. Then I got the message about a missing bootmsg which I fixed running Windows repair utility ( a couple of times).
It's a joy to see your old system come back to life. I can't see any problems with system or data as yet and don't expect to.
Congrats on a very useful forum.
When backups are run users need to tick the box "show Hidden Drives" so that Ghost can "see" them because all partitions need backing up including the SRP as Brian quite rightly pointed out to me recently.
My step by step guide needs repeating for each partition copied including the SRP then it should boot first time.
I assumed that each drive / partition was clean with no hidden bits because I totally rely on Ghost as a backup and recovery agent and prepare my drives accordingly.
Deric