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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.
iseeuu--Being (partially) fearless, I decided to try again.
"you would need to delete what you created in the 101MB space at the front of your hard drive so that again it is unallocated space like it was before you created a simple volume there. Then to make it easier for you and to stop Windows from trying to make the "Simple Volume" a "Logical Drive", delete D:"
I deleted the contents of Z: .
What you tried would have worked. However I do not understand why you decided to only delete the "contents"? I do not recall having ever suggested that in any of the numerous posts in this thread. The 100MB "System Reserved" boot partition at the front of your hard drive (before your C partition) MUST be a "Primary" partition. The ONLY way to get there now is to DELETE the current partition and create a new "Primary" partition of 100MB in size. Please review the step by step instructions already posted.
Cheers!
Robert
iseeuu--Being (partially) fearless, I decided to try again.
"you would need to delete what you created in the 101MB space at the front of your hard drive so that again it is unallocated space like it was before you created a simple volume there. Then to make it easier for you and to stop Windows from trying to make the "Simple Volume" a "Logical Drive", delete D:"
I deleted the contents of Z: . Z: became 100MB Free Space rather than Allocated Space with no drive letter. I saw no option to increase it to 101MB. But I went ahead anyway and Deleted D:. It all became Allocated Space. I went back to former Z:, went through the procedure to assign a Drive Letter, but saw no obvious option in any window to make it either a Primary or Logical partition. There was one window that had a line called Volume Label. "New Volume" was entered in that line and it offered no options, but I could erase what was entered and enter Primary. When finished I had Z: back, labelled "Primary Z:" in the title(?) bar at it top, but its properties showed to again be a Logical partition and 99MB in size. (Now I am unable to change that Primary title. Going into Change Drive Letter... only gives the options to change or remove the Drive Letter. FWIW--I now know what "New Voume" meant in that Volume Label line.)
I saw no purpose in proceeding and restored former D: (now Unallocated Space) to D:.
"I think I will leave things as they are as long as they work." Yes, that might be best. Perhaps you can find a friend or relative who can do it for you. Or maybe you know someone who can use the "Remote Desktop Assistance" to do it for you.
As for your other questions: go back to this MS link I posted earlier: Understanding Disk Partitions You will see a picture of an example of "More Than Four Partitions": three "Primary" partitions, then the "Extended" partition with two "Logical" partitions inside the "Extended" partition. When you tried to create the simple volume in the 101MB unallocated space at the front of your hard drive, you said you: "Gave it drive letter Z and it was automatically named a Logical Drive". Did you just accept that Windows "automatically named it a Logical Drive", or did you tell Windows that YOU wanted it to be a "Primary" volume (or partition)? If you just accepted Windows choice as a Logical partition, then Windows first created the "Extended" partition and then put the "Logical" drive inside the "Extended" partition. So you now have a 99MB "logical" drive inside an "Extended" partition.
Had you changed that from "Logical" to "Primary" at that point in time, you would now be done. You would be resizing (shrinking and extending) your partitions to suit you.
So if you change your mind and decide to "try again", you would need to delete what you created in the 101MB space at the front of your hard drive so that again it is unallocated space like it was before you created a simple volume there. Then to make it easier for you and to stop Windows from trying to make the "Simple Volume" a "Logical Drive", delete D:
Then repeat the steps you did before: "You are creating a simple volume (Primary Volume) of 100MB in size, you are going to assign drive letters, you are going to copy files from one to the other, you are going to mark the newly created 100MB partition as "Active" and give it no drive letter, and boot. If the computer does not boot to Windows, you are going to boot to the DVD and Windows will most likely repair its self. If not, you can select "Startup Repair" from the menu and do it yourself."
Cheers!
Robert
