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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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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.
Sorry, I'm not the O.P.
I think this is what the O.P. is trying to achieve;
"If you do not want to have the 100 MB System Reserved partition and only the Windows 7 C: partition on a HDD or SSD after installation, then select a formatted partition or drive to install Windows 7 on. If there are any partitions on the disk, you won't get the 100 MB System Reserved."
Clean Install Windows 7
He wants to get rid of the reserved space and we've already tried to tell him that BIOS and
Windows7 enumerates the drives differently, he'll probably never get C: to be Disk 0, as theog
explained in his dialogue box.
I've never encountered this System Reserved, so my installation habits must be different or my habit of formatting new boot drives on the previous machine, prior to installing it on a new build. See my screen cap.
Last edited by BlueGuy; 08 Mar 2014 at 07:42.
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.
Re Read posts #17 and #22
The OP states he was trying to get rid of the system reserved partition.
In #22 he states he wants to have 1 large partition.
I IM him with my cell number, hopefully he can give me a ring.