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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.
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Thanks anyway,
i wil try a install with an different harddisk.
I eventually found out how to clean up the invisible logging files and turn off logging on the reserved partition. What BUGS me is that this BUG is apparently very well known, and IF you know how takes only minutes to fix. I'm guessing that Microsoft could 1. fix whatever causes this mystery logging no one asks for, 2. Fix the directory and partitioning tools in Windows to show where the space is going 2, 3. Create a fixit that turns off and removes the logging and cleans up the mess. For the life of me I don't understand why MS doesn't just fix this, even partially. As someone who has been in IT for over 40 years, it boggles the mind that something this easy to fix is being ignored by MS - and when someone posts here with the problem, MS doesn't just out and say what to do to fix it.
It's only 100MB space. As for your question, some third party partition management software could allow you convert some space of the system partition to unallocated partition. Like aomei partition assistant. I highly recommend you to use this software. It's very helpful.
I don't mind having the 100mb partition on my Win 7 Pro system. What I do mind is that Backup won't create a system image with what is apparently
a well known error because of a space issue in that partition, and I can't find any way to fix the error and create the system image. It sounds like
Backup wants to create a shadow copy of the contents of each volume on that same volume, and if more then half the volume is in use, it fails. In
my case 88mb is shown as used by Disk Management. I know of no way to go in and clean it up. I've heard there is a useless log that forms in it
and causes this problem and I've no idea what to do about it.
Ron
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.
Regards,
Debbie
Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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