Hardware Reserved refers to a portion of your RAM reserved by the hardware components and BIOS/UEFI firmware to work properly. Hardware reserved memory is not available to the operating system, which ...

The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

Have some older machines that for some reason, were ordered with Windows 7 32-bit. Where we can, we are clean installing Windows 10 64-bit, but where we can't (remote machines), we're just upgrading ...