How do I hide the System Reserved partition?

Remove the drive letter for the system reserved partition. If you have a multi-boot system, this could cause problems depending on where your system boots from.

To remove the drive letter and hide the partition from explorer and my computer:

  1. Open Computer management on the local computer by right clicking on Computer in Windows Explorer and choose manage. Then click on Disk Management in the left hand pane.

    (Or just type diskmgmt.msc into the run dialog)

  2. Right click on the shaded area for Drive D: System reserved in the lower right hand window.

  3. Click on Change drive letter or paths

  4. Highlight D and click remove

If you receive error messages that the drive might be in use or that programs might not run correctly, don't panic. It is OK to remove the drive letter. Once a letter is not assigned, the drive will not appear in windows explorer.

This works in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.


I encountered the same issue. In DiskMgmt GUI no drive letter was assigned to the hidden system partition but in Windows Explorer it had drive letter H:

I solved it as following: In a command prompt I started DiskPart.exe, then ran:

list disk
select Disk 0
list partition
select partition 1 (the one corresponding with the hidden system drive)
remove

Now the drive letter is gone in the Explorer.


I faced the same problem. To solve it, I did the following:

  • Right click on C: Drive and select Properties
  • Now you can see the Local Disk(C:) Properties Model Dialog Box
  • Now select the tools tab feature in the Local Disk(C:) Properties Model Dialog Box
  • Now click on Check Now button and you can see the Check Disk Local Disk (C:) Model Dialog Box
  • And at last select the check box Automatically File System Errors and click on the start button.
  • Restart the computer and let the check computer file system error .

Hope it will hide the system reserved partition.