200 Meg hidden System partition

[Bare Foot Kid]

The best way to learn is to break something.

That's the way I learn just about everything; the hard way!......Sometime I learn it more than once.











Later ted

 

[smarteyeball]

That's the way I learn just about everything; the hard way!......Sometime I learn it more than once.


Later ted

It's the best way! Doing it more than once just strengthens those neural pathways

If your still doing it past the ten mark however....

 

[garysgold]

The best way to learn is to break something

I generally try to learn something about it before I break it. Then when I break it I learn some more.

Gary

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Smartey, good point!

Though usually by the 7th or 8th time, I just about have it figured out....


Hello Gary!














Later Ted

 

[smarteyeball]

Hello Smartey, good point!

Though usually by the 7th or 8th time, I just about have it figured out....


Later Ted

LOL "just about" is better than "not at all"

 

[garysgold]

Hi Ted,

Most of what I 'just about' have figured out changes with the next release. I've gotten used to just about having stuff figured out. Reaching the goal is nice, but the real fun is in the journey, IMHO.

Gary

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Most of what I 'just about' have figured out changes with the next release. I've gotten used to just about having stuff figured out. Reaching the goal is nice, but the real fun is in the journey, IMHO.

Hello Gary....

So true; it's a journey not a destination.









Later Ted

 

[limneos]

I have some news about this matter, which I came up with yesterday.

I appeared that I needed to see the partition, cause I wanted to write a boot record from BCD into that, so I had to assign a drive letter from DiskManagement. Afterwards, disk management does not allow you to "hide" the drive letter again, but DISKPART does. From within Windows, no boot-from-install-disk required.

So, to unassign the drive letter once you've assigned it, you must enter an elevated CMD and...:

DISKPART {enter}
 
DISKPART> list disk {enter}
 
disk 0 
disk 1 etc. 
 
DISKPART>select disk 0 (where "0" is your hard disk no. with the 200mb partition on it) {enter}
 
DISKPART> list partition (to find your 200mb partition) {enter}
DISKPART> select partition 1 (or your 200mb partition number.) {enter}
DISKPART> remove {enter}
DISKPART> exit {enter}

The drive letter is removed and the partition is hidden again.

 

[garysgold]

Thanks limneos,

Good to know.

Gary

 

[CPappas]

I noticed that everyone is talkin gabout the system partition, well if you already have a partition larger then 200 megs then it will not set a boot partiton

I have 2 parttitons both 125 gigs
disk 0 part 0 is my vista partiton and the windows 7 system
disk 0 part 1 is my windows 7 partition.

after i installed i just went to disk manager and assigned adrive letter and have access to my vista files.

 

[garysgold]

Hello CPappas,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Apparently if you have partitioned the hard drive then the 200 meg partition is not created. Also if you have another OS installed, it will update the MBR that has already been created as there cannot be 2 of them and it must go on the first sector of the first drive to be found at startup. If I understand correctly.

Gary

 

[HikerRemastered]

Yes and now we'll get to explain 2 partitions instead of one. If they can't delete it, that's just gonna make 'em mad and they'll want to know how to get rid of it. But then that is *one* of the reasons for hanging around here. To try to prevent tragedies when we can and to help people recover from tragedies when it's tooooo late.

Gary

Late reply (I'm new here)

I agree completely. Biggest reasons I hang around here (or similar places) is so that I don't cause those tragedies, and so that I may help those that I can... But also to point and laugh when someone goes:
"wtfomg?!! i jus fked ma hdd!!!! won bewt no more.... fkin mcriosfot!"


I can't believe how long it takes to type like that.

 

[smarteyeball]

I can't believe how long it takes to type like that.

I can't believe how long it takes to read that

 

[zainravian]

Multi Boot OS

I using Dual Windows XP and Vista..Now i want to install Windows 7 beta....
And i m using Intel Core2due...
Will this 3 OS made Any harmful to my Computer Performance

 

[garysgold]

Hello HikerRemastered and zainravian,

Welcome to the Seven Forums. Lots of great info and people here and always room for more. Enjoy.

Gary

 

[zainravian]

Thanks a lot

 

[HikerRemastered]

Thanks mate.

I like it here.

*plops down a chair*

 

[brownwire]

200Meg!! That is over 5% of my hard drive (4Gb SSD). It must be eliminated. What is the advantage of having it as a separate partition instead of boot er directory/file/thingy? Is it mounted read-only? Is it the core of the OS that tends to stay memory resident or get paged back in frequently?

It is a big skip for small disk's head to have to lurch over 200Mb every time it accesses it.

I am thick I need to know about the disk, does it reset the head to off-disk between reads or de-energize the head and leave it lurking in position to resume reading?

 

[swarfega]

This is an old thread and the partition has since been reduced to 100mb. It is explained in this thread what the purpose of the partition is.

 

[skan]

Hello.

How can I manually create that hidden system partition?

I've got to install Windows 8 on an external disk. It cannot be done automatically. Thus I created a primary partition manually, leaving 100MB of unallocated space.
And then I installed Windows there with the deploying tool imagex.

And it works right but the installation hasn't automatically created the 100MB System reserved partition.
Everything has been installed on to the C: partition instead.

How could I force Windows to install the boot files to that sytsem partition?
I couldn't find (in any partition application) the option to tag that area of the disk as system/boot/reserved partition.

thanks