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Captmcnet
Two installations of Win 7 Pro on two different PC's showing different results.
1st 1 TB drive, with an Intel DP55WB mobo, with an Intel I7 860 CPU.
2nd 1 TB drive, with a Gigabyte EP45UD3R mobo, with an Intel Core 2 Q9550 CPU.
The 2nd machine shows a normal Disk 0 C: NTFS drive partition as: System, Boot,
Page File, Active, Primary Partition.
The 1st machine shows a Disk 0 with a 100 MB (no drive letter, System Reserved),
partition as: System, Active, Primary Partition; and then the remainder of Disk 0
C: NTFS drive partition as: Boot, Page File, Primary Partition.
The 1st machine also shows three startup entries which are not in the startup of
the 2nd machine. They are; Shell (explorer.exe),
Userinit (windows\system32\userinit.exe, and
VmApplet (SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe /pagefile).
Is the 100 MB System Reserved partition necessary (if so, Why?), and if not,
should I use Partitioning software to re-claim the 100 MB for the C: partition?
And how do I make the C: partition show as "System" as well as Boot, etc.?
Suggestions appreciated.
Tks
Last edited by Captmcnet; 09 Oct 2010 at 18:16. Reason: Title should be: 100 MB 'System Reserved', no drive letter Partiton.