Troubleshooting

Hide System Reserved

How to hide System Reserved from showing below.

1. Open the Disk Management

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If you can't find the Disk Management, Press Windows Key & R and then use this command below, this command will open the Disk Management window.

diskmgmt.msc

2. Select the System Reserved partition, Right click and then Change Drive Letter and Paths for System Reserved select the letter for example Z:, and then Remove, then Yes > Yes this will remove the System Reserved partition letter.

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This will remove the partition letter and it will not show up any more on your file explorer.

Time/Clock Synchronization

Things you may try to fix this issue.

Restart and Configure the Windows Time Service

1. Open the Run using Windows + R or just search Run or just Right Click on Windows icon and open the Run.
2. Write services.msc or just search Services on the search bar.
3. Scroll down until you find the Windows Time right click and restart, if this not work then just start it and then restart the service.
4. If that didn't work right click on Windows Time and then select Properties then Startup Type: select Automatic if it is running already just press top and restart. then click apply.
5. go to Log On, and Select Local System Account and Allow service to interact with desktop

Change the time server

1. Open the Run using Windows Key + R or just search Run or just Right Click on Windows icon and open the Run.
2. Write timedate.cpl then press Ok or Enter.
3. Select Internet Time, Change Settings...
4. Change Server, and Update now.

Add more Servers to the list

1. Open the Run using Windows Key + R or just search Run or just Right Click on Windows icon and open the Run.
2. Write regedit then press Ok or Enter.
3. On the top bar just Paste this Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers
4. Right click on the left tab and New > String Value name it the next number (if it is 2 then name it 3.) Double click on the String value you made and renamed, and on Value Data add pool.ntp.org then press okay, i will give you more servers. isc.org now the new servers will show up at Date and Time as we used before at Change the time server, you have to run the timedate.cpl

Servers List -> Servers

Force Windows to Sync Time

1. Open the Command Prompt/CMD as an Administrator and paste those commands from below one at the time.

w32time Syntax and parameters

net stop w32time

It stops the Windows Time Service

w32tm /unregister

Unregisters the time service, and removes all configuration information from the registry.

w32tm /register

Registers the time service to run as a service, and adds default configuration to the registry.

net start w32time

It starts the Windows Time Service

w32tm /resync

It tells a computer that it should resynchronize its clock as soon as possible, throwing out all accumulated error statistics.

shutdown /r /t 0

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this command will restart your computer

Check the Current Windows Time Source

1. Open the CMD as an Administrator.

2. Then run:

w32tm /query /source

3. Then check the current peers:

w32tm /query /peers

4. You can also check the current Windows Time status:

w32tm /query /status

This can help you see where Windows is trying to get its time from and whether the time service is actually communicating with a time source.

Force Windows to Rediscover the Time Source

If a normal resync did not work, try:

w32tm /resync /rediscover

This makes Windows rediscover its network time sources and then try to synchronize again.

Test the Time Server

You can test a time server without changing the Windows Time configuration by using:

w32tm /stripchart /computer:pool.ntp.org /dataonly /samples:5

You can replace pool.ntp.org with another time server from your list.

If the requests time out or no usable response is returned, the problem may be the time server, DNS, the network, or UDP port 123.

Check DNS

If you are using a server name such as pool.ntp.org, make sure Windows can resolve it.

1. Open CMD.

2. Then run:

nslookup pool.ntp.org

3. If it cannot resolve the server, try another DNS server or fix the DNS/network problem first.

Check UDP Port 123 / Firewall

Windows Time uses NTP over UDP port 123.

If Windows is sending requests but receiving no response, a Windows Firewall, router, security appliance, VPN, or another firewall may be blocking UDP port 123.

You may need to check the firewall/network configuration and make sure NTP traffic is allowed.

Try Another Network

If all the time servers are failing, try connecting the computer to another network, such as a phone hotspot.

If time synchronization works on another network, the original network, firewall, router, VPN, or DNS configuration may be causing the problem.

Restart the Computer

If you have already restarted the Windows Time service and tried the commands above, restart Windows and try the synchronization again.

Sometimes a restart is enough to clear a service or network problem.

Check the Date, Time, and Time Zone

Make sure the time zone is correct.

1. Open Settings.
2. Go to Time & language > Date & time.
3. Check the Time zone.
4. Check that Set time automatically is enabled when you want Windows to synchronize the time automatically.

Check the CMOS Battery

If the computer keeps losing the date and time, especially after the computer has been completely powered off, check the CMOS/RTC battery.

A weak or dead CMOS battery can cause the hardware clock to lose its stored time when the computer is powered off.

You may notice things such as:

• The date and time reset after the PC has been unplugged or powered off.
• The BIOS/UEFI clock is also wrong.
• The computer keeps asking for the date/time or showing other BIOS clock-related problems.

If all of the Windows Time, NTP server, DNS, network, and synchronization methods above have been tried and the clock is still resetting after the computer is powered off, the CMOS battery may be dead and may need to be replaced.

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If the time is only wrong while Windows is running but the BIOS/UEFI clock remains correct after a full power-off, the CMOS battery is not necessarily the problem. Check the Windows Time service, NTP configuration, DNS, firewall, and network first.