Can I delete the system reserved partition from 100MB

Anonymous
2009-06-06T22:02:00+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-06-11T15:08:03+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-06-06T22:56:08+00:00

Thanks anyway,

i wil try a install with an different harddisk.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-12T16:32:11+00:00

    I should add that this occurs with Virtualization enabled and a Vista Ultimate 32-bit Virtual PC vhd on a 650 GB drive separate from the Windows 7 Pro C drive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-12T16:34:11+00:00

    I have a different reason for not wanting the System Reserved partition as it creates evidently two active partitions. I am trying to convert a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit server to a vm using Vcenter Converter and the logs show "Building partition list: Can't have more then one active partition on a disk." and the vm conversion fails. Any idea how to get around this issue of VMware converter thinking there are more than one active partition?

    Thanks

    David

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-13T15:18:34+00:00

    My experience differs from the majority here and I haven't used Server 2008.  Can you right-click computer > manage to pull up device manager with disk management below it?  This should clearly show the system reserved and any partitions.  The boot partition should be on Disk 0.  The system reserve is not an active partition.  Otherwise the problem must be the converter.

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