Can I delete the system reserved partition from 100MB

Thanks for the info so far.  Now, can SOMEONE post the instructions for REMOVING that partition?  I had a nice clean install going with Disk 1 1TB for System, and Disk 2 + 3 at 2TB each for a planned RAID 0 striped volume set under windows 7 - but suddenly I'm sitting with an extra 100MB partition on one of the volumes I want to use in the RAID0 set.  What a crock.

I have 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 machine here with the "desktop experience" turned on - and 2 Windows 7 64-bit machines - all identical Core i7's with 12GB of RAM and 5TB of total disk - but I don't want random 100MB partitions on RAID sets that might get moved between machines at any time (yes Server can do that).

The instructions at the 'mydigitallife' posting seem to be correct in that pre-partitioning the drives seems to be the solution - I installed Win7 on one machine with all the drives unpartitioned and ended up with this little microsoft mess. 

I need a way to remove this partition AFTER install - the windows disk management utility in 'computer management' does not seem to be able to manipulate this partition at all - I'll try boot from CD to WinPE and fry the partition then - but the  point IS NOT that the machine might not boot after removal - it's the hairball that created the partition in the first place - at least ask people if they want extra trash strewn about on their clean disks before putting stuff there - putting something 'extra' on a RAID set is totally unnacceptable and will now cause wasted time as we reinstall until we get past the stupidity. - 1 idget in redmond wastes 1000's of hours of real peoples time - so typical.  QA should catch this stuff.  And whoever coded it this way should spend extra time back in PSS answering phones and emails from needlessly provoked users like me.

thanks for letting me rant.  now let's go fix this little amusement.

Though I have not actually dug into it and could be wrong, I think the only way you are going to be able to get rid of the 100MB is to repartition everything.

I did send in a a report about this being a serious flaw during RC testing, but MS felt it was necessary to have it without an explanation why. I put in that there needed to be an option for the user/installer to chose where and if this was done.

I was not trying to do an array like, but in order to prevent W7 from making this partition I had to disconnect my other two drives when I did a clean install of RTM. To my knowledge this 100MB partition is only made when you have more than 1 HDD. I think there was also a post about it happening when a drive had more than 1 partition, but I am not positive about it.

I do know when I reformatted the drive it was on during RC testing that I lost my boot manager and had to reinstall W7 RC again.