I performed a clean installed of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on my PC. After the installation, I've noticed that the "System Reserved" Partition was missing but Windows is still normally starts. I am kind of insecure, is this safe?
Sorry for the English. I 'am Filipino
Hello Isaiah, and welcome to Seven Forums.
If you did a clean install on a selected formatted drive, then you don't get the "System Reserved" partition.
Only when you do a clean install on a selected drive that is shown as unallocated space will the "System Reserved" partition be created.
Step 8 in the tutorial below has more on this if you like.
If you have a retail installation USB/DVD, then you don't really need a "System Reserved" partition though. You could just boot from the installation USB/DVD for any needed System Recovery Options instead.
Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
Thank you. I feel comfortable now!
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