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I don't understand why you would NOT want the boot partition to be there. It also contains the Windows Recovery Environment that can help you recover from a corrupted operating system.
Sometimes doing something just because you can isn't the best reason.
I think if you format the drive (aligned) on, say, another computer and then throw W7 at it, the install disk will use the partition as it is.
I like having the Recovery Enviroment on a separate partition. Indeed I've use the setautofailover.cmd to move it to a small RE partition in the past. Here's some reading on the issue. A little old, but still pertinent.
Windows RE Notes : How to install Windows RE on the hard disk
Thanks man, I decided to just use the 100MB partition for a while. When I get the final copy I will do away with it. It can't hurt anything and according to you I now have an aligned partition now. Thanks for the help. I might need some in the future and maybe I can help you with something.
Great! Sounds like a plan.
Tom
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Good info. Thank you.
I have read that if you have a second hard drive installed, Win7 will stick the 100MB
partition there. Have you found this to be true?
Win 7 aligns the partition to 1024 by itself so no worries.
If in any doubt, in Diskpart add the line
create partition primary align 1024, but this is not required in Win7
Didn't really read more then the first page (its 4:17am so I'm tired) although, the way I get rid of the 100mb partition is..
During setup, after it creates the 100mb partition, delete the other one (the one you want to use, trust me), then 'format' the 100mb partition, then 'Extend' the 100mb partition to use all of the one we deleted earlier.
That is how I do it anyways, quick and simple.