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
    2010-11-18T21:10:47+00:00

    I agree with DaRaz. This is not about the 100MB of space. Most of us don't need the partition in a corporate environment. It just complicates the imaging process and my company does doesn't use bitlocker. If we ever get a problem with a Windows 7 PC, we just reimage it. I remove the reserved partition as part of my base image creation process. Perhaps force it for home editions but allow the option to easily skip it for corporate editions, Microsoft?

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T04:34:50+00:00

    You and MS people just don't get it, nobody is concerned with it's only 100 MB of space (Ken Blake - Ken how much does it cost when it's a SSD drive?) I have been imaging my OS, since Win 95, so I don't need my OS to help me recover from a failure.  So why the change to have a separate partition as a boot partition? Why is it not an option, is MS like the government - we are all idiots and MS and the government know what is best for us?  It does mess with third party imaging software.  In the end, the answer is always - Follow the money and control .

    So the real question is why did MS did this, not how to get rid of it.  Remember, the answer is FOLLOW THE MONEY.  You have the MS MVP people here going different directions, so they are just pawns in the game that don't know what is really going on. 

    The people who know computers will find away around it, the other 95%+ will say....mooooooooo, moooooooo.

    So again, WHAT IS THE MOTIVE, for MS removing options and leading us down a pre-determined path.  moooo, mooo

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-16T19:04:13+00:00

    I'm not trying to delete the 100mb... I want the letter to vanish!!! One of our servers, with valuable software installed, suddently moved the boot disk from C: to D:.

    Booting from the installation CD and running DISKPART I can see the two volume letters, however, they can't be deleted. Also, DISKPART and Regedit runs on the mini boot and not on the server. With this condition I can't boot the server. To have a C: drive with just 100mb and nothing else is not helping.

    Any advise will be highly appreciated.

    (: fcm :)

    fcm;

    The drive letters assigned by Windows and the drive letters assigned by diskpart are from two different worlds, like Venus and Mars. Diskpart runs from a command prompt before Windows loads and does not care nor is not concerned with the drive letters assigned by Windows. Diskpart will assign the first partition it finds as C:, the second as D:, and so on. You cannot tell Diskpart to remove the assigned drive letter.

    But when Windows loads, you can use the Disk Management Utility to remove any drive letter assignment from a partition. This action only serves to "hide" the partition from the Windows File Management Utility, but you can still see it and manage it from the Disk Management Utility.

    This is not the same as Diskpart. If Diskpart allowed you to remove a drive letter assignment from a partition, you could no longer manage it with Diskpart.

    If you are unable to boot your computer, I would suggest you use Diskpart to make sure the 100 MB boot partition is set as "Active", then use the "Startup Repair" Utility to restore booting to the computer:

    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

    Cheers!

    Robert

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