What's on that 100MB partition? Can I delete it?

Good thread with good information. Thanks all; I learned.

erniesparks said:

This topic is closest to my issue. My Windows 7 Disk Defragmenter will NOT properly analyze NOR defragment (consolidate) my 100MB partition (name is SYSTEM). Volumes C: and D: do well with Defragmenter.
From what I have been picking up it might be due to the code on it (system, active, primary). The defragmentation percentage is now 14%. Should I be concerned?

Hello erniesparks, welcome to Seven Forums!



Just leave that partition alone, if you mess with it Windows may cease to boot properly.

Hi, BFK. Thanks for your greeting.

I had already made up my mind to avoid messing with anything coded as "SYSTEM". It is just that I am used to running periodic defragmentation runs (like under Windows XP) and wondered whether I should get another defrag tool (or something). The real live issue is whether it might later become an I/O tax, or (hopefully) be recognized as just an ugly pimple on a Windows 7 built computer system. I don't need those 100MB back.

Here are my hard disk stats (from Disk Management):

disk 0 partition 1 SYSTEM simple basic NTFS healthy (system, active, primary partition) 100 MB 70 MB 70% No 0%

disk 0 partition 2 HP (C: simple basic NTFS healthy (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition) 919.90 GB 657.03 GB 71% No 0%

disk 0 partition 3 FACTORY_IMAGE (D: simple basic NTFS healthy (primary partition) 11.32 GB 1.63 GB 14% No 0%

This disk has plenty of free space. SYSTEM partition is small in size and maybe that is why nothing happens when I try to analyze or defragment it.

Thank you all for letting me sound off about this disagreeable sight. Ernie

erniesparks said:

Thank you all for letting me sound off about this disagreeable sight. Ernie

Hello Ernie.

There is an option if you prefer; have a look at Option Two in the first tutorial below and the general info in the second tutorial at these links below; though there's nothing wrong at all leaving the "System, Reserved" partition intact if you desire, just some knowledge you may be interested in.


Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

HI!
I was just wondering, cause there is a lot of confusing info in this topic, if I could delete this partition and perform a low-level format on my disks using a couple of programs of hirens boot cd.
My win 7 broke down recently and I just formatted the second disk and put XP on it, cause I don't have time to deal with win7 problems right now... So I want to keep XP for now and reinstall it after the low level format of the disks... So my question is...can I mess with the partition if I plan on reinstalling the OS?

Thanks for any response. =)