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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.
Okay I am also having this same problem after installing Windows 7 on a brand new SSD. My previous install on my HDD did not display a system reserved partition. What are the real steps for deleting this partition in Windows 7? Or do I have to format and repartition to do so?
Funny you suggesting switching to Linux as a way of fixing their problem. The irony is that past versions of Windows used a pretty straight-forward method of managing boot settings, in the boot.ini file. Since Windows Vista, they are moving more towards the boot managers used in LINUX.
If you know anything about Linux, you notice when you go to install even a minimal Linux distribution, it will try to make a 100MB boot partition and use the rest of the hard drive for the root partition (some make you split the /home and /var directories and other such jazz).
Everybody is crying about the 100MB partition, but Linux does the same thing. There are three solutions to this problem:
1.) When you install windows, it says it will make the 100MB partition and then the partition that Windows will install on. Delete the partition Windows is going to install on and Extend the System Reserved partition (the 100MB partition, extend it to fit the entire drive) then install Windows on that.
2.) On an existing install of Windows 7, you find out how to circumvent the friendly safety controls in Windows that Bill Gates put there so you can delete the 100MB partition. I think someone mentioned LOL Bitlocker. If you do this, I highly recommend you learn how the boot manager works and back it up and move it over to your Windows partition before you delete the System Reserved partition. Otherwise it's the equivalent of purposely circumventing the safety on a firearm and then shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming the gun manufacturer.
or 3.) Quit complaining. Average computer users' PCs and Laptops have hard-drives tend to be more than 100GB. 100MB of 100GB is roughly 0.1%. Get over it. Like I said, Linux does the same thing.
Sorry, for bringing up an old topic, but replies like this just make my blood boil.
> Sure it is. People get fixated on doing the wrong things all the time.
How do you know your answer is the correct one?
> 100 MB is a drop in the bucket.
Obviously it's not about the space. It's about keeping your part table clean. Windows has always had a habit of making a mess out of everything it touches, placing whatever it wants wherever it wants.
>The data in it may be needed when you have a system problem and/or need to recover from a failure.
So, basically, you don't have ANY idea what the partition is for yourself.
> Leave it alone. It's not hurting anything, it's not taking an appreciable amount of space, and it's not slowing anything down. If the system is fighting your removing it, there's a reason.
It's not up to you to decide. The question was "How" not "Should I" or "Why". If you cannot answer the question professionally then do not answer at all.
