Please have a look @ my partition setup

I have a few questions regarding my HDD partitions after a recent Win7 restore. The HDD was brand new & I did not partition it prior to installing Win7. I simply followed the manufacturers restore instructions.

1) Not sure what the 1st partition (recovery partition) is? Is it the OS .ISO from the restore Cd's?
2) Is the 2nd partition the MBR? If so, why is it 200 MB? Shouldn't it be 100 MB? Does it matter?

Just wanna know if there any abnormalities here before I attempt another restore, this time on a brand new SSD. Will also attempt to partition the SSD beforehand using Minitool Partition.

Thanks!

Sorry.... I forgot to include the actual capture....DUH!

The first partition contains your recovery image which is used to do a factory restore.
Some manufacturers changed the default size of the System Reserved partition from 100MB to 200MB as the 100MB size was known to cause issues with the Windows Image backup utility (see below). I have mine set at 450MB but I keep some other tools on that partition too. MS should have never set it at 100MB in the first place. This was altered in Windows 8 to 350MB then to 500MB in Windows 10.

Brds7t7 said:

The first partition contains your recovery image which is used to do a factory restore.
Some manufacturers changed the default size of the System Reserved partition from 100MB to 200MB as the 100MB size was known to cause issues with the Windows Image backup utility (see below). I have mine set at 450MB but I keep some other tools on that partition too. MS should have never set it at 100MB in the first place. This was altered in Windows 8 to 350MB then to 500MB in Windows 10.

Okay cool, that's what I 'thought' the 1st partition was. So if I create 2 Partitions on my new SSD (Say, C: and D), I can 'direct' the factory image (from my restore CD's) to D:, then install Win7 OS onto C:, go back & delete the image on D: and use D: for data, etc... correct?

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
I believe you're referring to partitioning with uefi
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with

Where did you see that?

ThrashZone said:

I see what I see :)

So you can't answer a simple question?