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Is there a possibility to install windows 7 (clean install) without making a extra (hidden) partition "system reserved" from 100mb?
or how can I delete this partition after install ?
Why is it for?
I have the meaning that this slows down my hard drive a little ?
thanks
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Hi Johan G,
Thanks for posting to Getting Ready for Windows 7 .
The 100MB partition is a system partition and contains boot files. Disk Manager will not allow you to remove this partition because removing this partition could cause the system to not boot.
Thanks for posting your question to Getting Ready for Winodws 7 community group.
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Debbie
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Thanks anyway,
i wil try a install with an different harddisk.
I found a work around the need for the 100MB partition, by accident.
Bare with me for a second. :) I bought a laptop and made an image of the entire drive. I then upgraded to a different drive. I first formatted the new drive into 1 big NTFS partition via a Linux Live CD. Then rebooted (with my Image Recovery DVD in the laptop) , plugged in the USB drive that houses the 35GB image and waited for the install to finish.
35min later, rebooted and got a error stating the boot loader was missing. Great. I immediately knew why; the 100MB partition was not there. So, instead of tearing the drive apart and reloading the image again I thought, I'll do a Repair from the Windows Recovery DVDs I made. Booted up the Disk 1 and guess what ...no repair option.
This is why I despise Real Windows DVDs not coming with systems anymore. Vendors make their own and leave out options!
Luckily, I have an OEM Windows 7 Pro DVD from my custom made system, I loaded that, and did a Repair which took 2 secs to complete. Rebooted and Tada! Win7 loaded without a hitch. Checked Disk Management and no 100MB partition exists.
100MB is nothing these days I know but, Win7 runs fine without it.
hi friend can u help me to this
actually i am using linux and window 7 both by fault i deleted the window 7 system reserve files
when using linux now when i rebooting the window 7 its not boot mention that wxyz file is missing how can i solve this problem with out re install it . if u know mail me on ******@gmail.com .
thanks
This procedure did not work for me. When I attempted to copy the data from the old "reserved" to the new one, the copy was incomplete (according to win7 error message) and the "startup repair" did not fix the new one so on my system I still cannot boot without having the disk with the original "reserved" partition connected. This is a real pain because apparently the disk with "reserved" has developed an error and I would much rather move the "reserved" partition than to do a complete install. Does Partition Wizard actually move data in a partition that you want to move or just create a partition that is the same size in a different place and delete the old one? How does it get around windows security to do the data move? Surely there is someone out there who has had the same problem as me and found a better answer than "do a clean install".
hi
It sounds like corruption of files in reserved data. May even the drive, OS systems files. I would see your situation as something like if you wanted to move a catalog closters to another location in the same drive but diferent partitions or even on another drive all together.
