Solved Protection Settings shows 2 System Partitions? (One missing...) ?

Hi all,

I kind of stumbled across my System restore settings while nosing around and all of a sudden i noticed my "Protection Settings" field is showing 2 Windows 7 partitions.



One of them says its missing, which might be explained by the fact that i did a image recovery (Acronis) of an excisting (and nicely working) Windows 7 install a little while back.

I was just wondering if anyone here might know of a way to remove the "missing" value?

For the record...my windows installation is fresh and runs without a single hitch (im lovin it... ).

Also, my Disk management nicely shows only one active System partition: Click

Thanks in advance for any help.

What happens if you select the missing one and click the Configure button?

I get the configuration window, but even though the System recovery option is "on", the space usage slider is set to 0 bytes.

No matter how far i put the slider up, it keeps saying "xx % of 0 bytes".
Implying that there is no data there at all.

I'm guessing (hoping) the value can be edited through the system registry?

Here's another screenshot of the system security options:



No matter where i put the slider, it keeps saying xx% of 0 bytes implying there is no data concerned.

I really hope there's someone out here who can tell me how to remove the Windows 7 partition value as shown in my first screenshot on the right.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Hello NessPJ, welcome to Seven Forums!


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Hey there,

Thanks for replying.

I thought about doing that a few days earlier but had not given it a try.
I just did and the (Missing) 'partition' simply vanished now.
Looks like Microsoft finally understood they needed more suffisticated programming to cut it these days.
Thanks again for the help.

It's my pleasure, good to see you got it sorted and thanks for the update.