Can't Update System Reserved Partition

[mdklassen]

@OIC120,  welcome to this forum.

Have you read all the previous messages on this topic?  Some are helpful.

With a "clean" install, there should not be a need to expand the System-Reserved partition, until the next release of Windows 10 (apparently will be October 2017).

There do exist various "partition-resizing" tools, that can "move" and "resize" and "shrink" and "resize" the partitions on your existing disk-drive.

P.S. If you are doing a "clean" install from a USB memory-stick, there is one file on that memory-stick that defines the size to be used when creating the System-Reserved partition onto an "empty" disk-drive.  Just edit that file.

[oic120]

thankyou Mdklassen, I appreiate your earliest response. I have read all the post on this thread and a couple of other forums (tomshardware) aswell to solve this issue. It seems pretty impossible to do so. As far suing third party partition software I did install MiniTool Partition Wizard but it was not able to add the unallocated free space to the EFI System Partition. However, i had another partition namely "recovery partition" which was 450 MB, and the partition tool could only squeeze 27 MBs from this drive and extend the System Partition. 

I would appreciate if you can please guide me how I can add this 200MB unallocated space to System Partition? Even if I do a clean install, the wizard wont ask me the size of partitions, it will set them automatically at the recommended sizes, and this will again ceate an issue with the updates. 

[tangaiqing]

If it’s a GPT disk, it doesn't have a system reserved partition but efi partition. On MBR disk, Windows 10 requires a 500MB system reserved partition, while 100MB in Windows 7, so you can try to extend system reserved partition.

In disk management, you can only extend partition using the unallocated space next to its right side. so even if you shrink 😧 drive, the option to extend the efi partition is still grayed out. My suggestion is to use a third party software, AOMEI Partition Assistant, both the standard (free) or the Professional(paid) version can extend partition as long as there is unallocated space on that hard drive. to see more information read:

Fix "We Couldn’t Update the System Reserved Partition" Error