How to Fix “We Couldn’t Update the System Reserved Partition” Error on Windows 10/11

The error looks like this: We Couldn’t Update the System Reserved Partition.

Cause

The System Reserved Partition (SRP) may be full. The System Reserve Partition (SRP) is a small partition on your hard drive that stores boot information for Windows. Some third-party anti-virus and security apps write to the SRP, and can fill it up.

Resolution

Assign letter Y to SRP from CMD as administrator:

mountvol y: /s
y:
cd EFI\Microsoft\Boot\Fonts
del .

Ref: 11 Upgrade Error We couldn’t update the system-reserved partition

“We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error installing Windows 10 – Microsoft Support