Disk Management Placement not holding

AddRAM said:

SomeUserName said:

I skipped the drivers since none were compatible. I did not see any place to create and format partion. On the Drive options screen format was greyed out but I did just finish formatting so that might be why. I clicked next hoping that might bring a partition screen but it began the installation. Hopefully it works but for some reason I have a feeling I am going to end up with another System reserved partition is the screen right before the install started and that is the ONLY drive hooked into the computer. I even pulled the 4in1 USB reader out.

Format was grayed out because you didn`t make the partition yet, you would simply make a partition out of the 465 GB un allocated space that it shows you right there in the picture.

@Blueguy, the OP wants C to show as Disk 0 and he does not want a system reserved partition.

But OP can not have C: as SATA 0 & Disk 0, as the BIOS & Windows are talking to each other in that way.

With or Without System Reserved Partition, reinstalling or repair install.

Ah! I'm wondering if he's using one of those crazy vendor 'recovery disk[s]'.
I had to work on a Gateway once that only had one of those, not a proper install disk.
Retail or OEM it too kept shrinking the free space on the drive, so I did the next step below.
I'd suggest he try to get an OEM DVD or download an .iso, burn, use the key from the label,
which should be on the case somewhere.
He should re-virgin his drive, set active in disk management, which means, at least in my past,
using another machine to kill that reserved partition.

BlueGuy said:

Ah! I'm wondering if he's using one of those crazy vendor 'recovery disk[s]'.
I had to work on a Gateway once that only had one of those, not a proper install disk.
Retail or OEM it too kept shrinking the free space on the drive, so I did the next step below.
I'd suggest he try to get an OEM DVD or download an .iso, burn, use the key from the label,
which should be on the case somewhere.
He should re-virgin his drive, set active in disk management, which means, at least in my past,
using another machine to kill that reserved partition.

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theog said:

I have three of the same motherboards.(not your motherboard)



On Vista.

SATA 0 = Disk 0 OS

SATA 1 = Disk 1 Back up



On Windows 7.

SATA 0 = Disk 1 OS

SATA 1 = Disk 0 Back up



On Windows 8/8.1.

SATA 0 = Disk 0 OS

SATA 1 = Disk 1 Back up



Disk drive numbers may not correspond to the SATA channel numbers when you install Windows on a computer that has multiple SATA or RAID disks

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Ok, I see, you're pointing to the original M$ knowledge base article.
So my solution won't work, as I usually revert to steps for a new build.
Win7 does things its' own way.

Blue Guy, mark all of your Active partitions except C Inactive: Partition - Mark as Inactive - Windows 7 Forums. Only the OS partition or it's intended boot partition should be Active - ever.

There is no good reason to avoid the System Reserved partition I know of. I would not waste the time to even contemplate it, but just accept whatever it gives you. If you don't have the drive pre-partitioned or if you delete partitions during install, it will issue SysReservd.

I realize that you are not the OP, but you also have stray partitions marked Active which should not be.

The OP did not say he wanted to get rid of System Reserved, only asked if that might resolve his issue. It will not.

gregrocker said:

I realize that you are not the OP, but you also have stray partitions marked Active which should not be.

Yikes!, it was a hot summer in August, can't believe I missed that!
I must have been sleepy, moving drives from one box to another.
Thanks for catching that, although it hasn't affected operations.