How to lump the 100MB system reserved partition as part of C Drive?

AddRAM said:

If you create a partition to install windows on, you will never get the 100 MB System Reserved partition. But, it`s nothing to worry about.

Hi there
Not quite true - but almost.

The only time you can avoid creating this partition is if you allocate the WHOLE HDD / SSD to "C" before installing Windows -- if you have any other partitions then Windows will always create the 100 MB partition.

After you've created your Windows system you can then use something like Partition Wizard (Free) to re-size the "C" partition if you've installed on to a large HDD.

It's not necessary to avoid creating the windows system partition - but I can understand why some people might want to do it -- then they just have to backup the "C" image instead of the system partition too.

On restore also when you restore the system Partition it must be the ACTIVE partition or your system won't boot. Set the "C" partition to PRIMARY.

I can see people just preferring to have a single partition so they don't have to worry about any of this on backup / restore of their images.

Remember also with things like GPT disks etc other considerations will apply in future.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

AddRAM said:

If you create a partition to install windows on, you will never get the 100 MB System Reserved partition. But, it`s nothing to worry about.

The only time you can avoid creating this partition is if you allocate the WHOLE HDD / SSD to "C" before installing Windows -- if you have any other partitions then Windows will always create the 100 MB partition.

I "pre partiton" a HD with multiple partitions before installing the OS.
I've never had Windows create the 100MB System Reserved partition, when multiple partitions already exist.

Golden said:

Deleting the System Reserved partition is straightforward - just delete it and merge the unallocated space to C: using your favourite partitioning tool..........but only after you have copied over the bootmanger to C: using these very simple steps:

Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD

Golden, that's right, I only figured that out a little while ago. I use Windows 7 Manager to move the boot manager over to C.

derekimo said:

Just so there is some history here, you should mention your other thread about creating a one key recovery,

How to convert from .RAR to .ISO file? (For Lenovo OKR7.0 Engineering)

Or have you abandoned that?

Actually, just re-name the RAR file as an ISO file. Or the reverse. I've done this a million times, they are practically identical, and ISO is an uncompressed RAR file, or, a compressed one, if the ISO image has been compressed to make a Gigabyte of space fit onto a CD image.

that way you can just burn whatever RAR you have after changing the RAR to ISO.

cheesum said:

Hi - on a separate matter, if i want to create 2x partitions on my 120GB INtel SSD (usable space is 112GB) what is the magic number for the size of each partition? What is the best size split btw. partition C & D ????

Just a rough idea...please advice....
Partition C: Windows + Windows update + Drivers (about 40GB)
Partition D: Software...(52GB)
Unallocated partition: 20GB
What you guys think of the size split?

Hence, when doing a fresh installation of Win#7, i just need to create 2x partitions. Here, Windows 7 will load the 100MB MBR into partition C. Am i correct?

Thanks.

Hi - any feedback on the magic number for the best partition size for both C and D on a 120GB SSD?

Hi guys...also, need some advice on something else.
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XweAponX said:

Golden said:

Deleting the System Reserved partition is straightforward - just delete it and merge the unallocated space to C: using your favourite partitioning tool..........but only after you have copied over the bootmanger to C: using these very simple steps:

Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD

Golden, that's right, I only figured that out a little while ago. I use Windows 7 Manager to move the boot manager over to C.

I would not use 3rd party tools or line commands to move the boot files because these do not complete the job.

Since before Win7 was released the procedure developed here is to Mark Partition C Active (converting first to Primary if it's Logical so it will accept the Active flag) and then run Startup Repair - Run up to 3 Separate Times.

Anything less will not complete the job. The OS may boot from C but it will lose the Repair console link on F8 Advanced Boot Options which is not a Best Practice and sloppy work.