System Reserved HD?

severedsolo said:

Disk 1 was the only hard drive plugged in when you installed? Then you plugged disk 0 in, which was the one that had the original system reserved on it?

Yes to both. Now do I right click on it in Disk Management and delete it, or format it?

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He reinstalled earlier to DISK1 with DISK0 unplugged, then plugged DISK0 back in.

I suggest you power down and unplug DISK0 again to make sure DISK1 will definitely start on its own.

Then you can plug DISK0 back in and delete or format System Reserved partition on DISK0 in Disk Management, if it will allow it. If not, we can give you commands to type to use to force its deletion.

I unplugged my other HD and the computer fired up without any problems. I don't know if the numbers changed because the other HD isn't there anymore, but C drive is now Disk 0 in the screenshot...

OK You can plug the other HD back in now to delete it and repartition as you want, then format.

Make sure you verify that you are deleting the correct HD in Disk Management.

If it won't delete because it thinks the 100mb SysReserved partition is still active, let us know and we will give you DISKPART commands to force delete it and clean the HD at the same time if you want.

gregrocker said:

OK You can plug the other HD back in now to delete it and repartition as you want, then format.

Why delete, partition, then format? Why not simply right-click choose format?

Don't you want a partition bigger than 100mb there?

Is there data on the other partition F: on that HD?

If so, your choices are:

1) move any data off, delete both partitions, repartition the HD as you want, then move the data back in, or

2) delete the 100mb Sys Reserved partition, then use free Partition Wizard bootable CD to Resize F: to its left into the deleted 100mb space so that you have that partition occupying the entire HD.

Perhaps if you tell us exactly what you want on that HD, we can give you the steps.

I thought when you format it you could choose the size you want. Maybe I was mistaken? I just want a full HD without any reserved crap. I was going to make it a scratch disk for Photoshop and perhaps store extra stuff on it.

You will need to delete the 100mb partition to create unallocated space.

Then use PW to extend your large partition to the left to incorporate that unallocated space.

PW can't merge two existing partitions.