Windows 7 - 200 Meg hidden System partition

Hello CPappas,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Apparently if you have partitioned the hard drive then the 200 meg partition is not created. Also if you have another OS installed, it will update the MBR that has already been created as there cannot be 2 of them and it must go on the first sector of the first drive to be found at startup. If I understand correctly.

Gary

Late reply (I'm new here)

I agree completely. Biggest reasons I hang around here (or similar places) is so that I don't cause those tragedies, and so that I may help those that I can... But also to point and laugh when someone goes:
"wtfomg?!! i jus fked ma hdd!!!! won bewt no more.... fkin mcriosfot!"


I can't believe how long it takes to type like that.

I can't believe how long it takes to read that

I using Dual Windows XP and Vista..Now i want to install Windows 7 beta....
And i m using Intel Core2due...
Will this 3 OS made Any harmful to my Computer Performance

Hello HikerRemastered and zainravian,

Welcome to the Seven Forums. Lots of great info and people here and always room for more. Enjoy.

Gary

Thanks a lot

Thanks mate.

I like it here.

*plops down a chair*

200Meg!! That is over 5% of my hard drive (4Gb SSD). It must be eliminated. What is the advantage of having it as a separate partition instead of boot er directory/file/thingy? Is it mounted read-only? Is it the core of the OS that tends to stay memory resident or get paged back in frequently?

It is a big skip for small disk's head to have to lurch over 200Mb every time it accesses it.

I am thick I need to know about the disk, does it reset the head to off-disk between reads or de-energize the head and leave it lurking in position to resume reading?

This is an old thread and the partition has since been reduced to 100mb. It is explained in this thread what the purpose of the partition is.