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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'm really surprised that you're getting so worried about such a small amount of disk.
If the Windows folder took up an extra 100MB, you wouldn't even notice.
On a fairly small system (100GB) that would be 1/10 of 1% of your disk. On a decent system it's .00001 of your disk.
Get a grip, it's not worth worrying about, much less risking a system that won't boot!
"Fertz" wrote in message news:76533948-e7e0-46b8-bfed-142115150209...
> I'm really surprised that you're getting so worried about such a
> small amount of disk.
> If the Windows folder took up an extra 100MB, you wouldn't even
> notice.
> On a fairly small system (100GB) that would be 1/10 of 1% of your
> disk. On a decent system it's .00001 of your disk.
> Get a grip, it's not worth worrying about, much less risking a
> system that won't boot!
And to look at it from a cost perspective, these days a 160GB hard
drive costs around $40 US. That means 1GB is 25 cents worth, and 100MB
is two-and-a-half cents worth. 100 million may be a big number, but
100 million bytes is a *tiny* amount.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Ken Blake
I'm really surprised that you're getting so worried about such a small amount of disk.
If the Windows folder took up an extra 100MB, you wouldn't even notice.
On a fairly small system (100GB) that would be 1/10 of 1% of your disk. On a decent system it's .00001 of your disk.
Get a grip, it's not worth worrying about, much less risking a system that won't boot!
As part of my job I deploy Full Disk Encryption which does not support 'Hiden Partitions' on any disks to be Encrypted, as such, what may seem as a trivial issue can become a nightmare.
In these cases we have to completely flatten the volume and re-install Windows 7 bypassing the need for the 100MB partition by force on install so that it keeps things nice and simple and a single partition as in days gone by. I have no idea why Microsoft went down this route but it is certain to cause ongoing problems in the future without a doubt and until we can find a way to redeploy the boot partition into the system volume partition the headaches will continue!
