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What is a Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR)?

April 26, 2017Microsoft MSR partition

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What is a Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR)?

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The Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) reserves space on each disk drive for subsequent use by operating system software. GPT disks do not allow hidden sectors. Software components that formerly used hidden sectors now allocate portions of the MSR for component-specific partitions. For example, converting a basic disk to a dynamic disk causes the MSR on that disk to be reduced in size and a newly created partition holds the dynamic disk database.