Disk Management Placement not holding

[theog]

This can also be caused by adding a PCI Raid Card.

Before adding a PCI Raid Card.



After adding a PCI Raid Card.

 

[SomeUserName]

Last post on previous page - That is the plan - Just have 1 big partition for the c drive or Windows drive

I have no PCI RAID card.Only slot being used is the blue video card slot

I am at the part where I can select the HDD driver. Someone mentioned before they got the driver from intel rather than the MB manufacturer site. I am trying to get intel as well from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&keyword="AHCI+SATA+Driver" but when I click desktop boards I need a series #. How do I know if my MB is 5, 6 or 7 series chipset?

 

[SomeUserName]

The SATA drivers from the ASUS site all disappear in the setup when "Hide drivers that are not compatible with hardware on this computer" is checked. Strange since I got them from the page of my specific motherboard ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download P5Q PRO TURBO SATA drivers 3rd from the bottom and I download the 23MB package for Windows 7 64bit and none are compatible

 

[SomeUserName]

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.

 

[SomeUserName]

Reinstall done...System reserved is back and the 2 1MB and 1.02MB unallocated partitions are still there as well so there are now 4 partitions on this one drive....WHAT THE F**K

 

[gregrocker]

System Reserved partition has absolutely nothing to do with which disk number your SATA drives will show up as. You were provided with a link that explains the mysteries of this directly from MS: 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.

Further there is no reason to be concerned about this at all. The only problem that can come from the OS disk not being in DISK0 is if you run Startup Repair or reinstall without unplugging the other drive. Then it might derail your System boot files to the first Primary partition in order if that is not the System Reserved or C drive. But there are ways to avoid this such as simply converting your data drive's partitions to Logical which cannot receive boot files. http://www.partitionwizard.com/vide...l-partition/primary-or-logical-partition.htmlHow to set partition as Primary or Logical with Partition Wizard

This thread spun out of control so quickly my head is spinning just from trying to keep up. But if you'll post back another screenshot and restate what it is you want to do, I will give you the steps that have worked for tens of thousands of others since Win7 was in beta.

 

[theog]

This thread spun out of control so quickly my head is spinning just from trying to keep up.

@ SomeUserName

This can also be caused by adding a PCI Raid Card.

I have no PCI RAID card.Only slot being used is the blue video card slot

Just show another cause.

 

[gregrocker]

Ray dug up the links where this has been discussed further in the forums:

Solved OS disk not disk 0 - Windows 7 Help Forums
Diskpart / Disk Management vs the BIOS - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

[BlueGuy]

I don't understand the O.P. problem, if he's always booting from C:
Why worry about it.
In BIOS , I have it set USB, Optical and then the Adata.
Which it always does, I may have switched data cables during maintenance but the system performs
as expected. So why worry?

 

[AddRAM]

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.

 

[AddRAM]

Reinstall done...System reserved is back and the 2 1MB and 1.02MB unallocated partitions are still there as well so there are now 4 partitions on this one drive....WHAT THE F**K

Unallocated space is not a partition.

 

[theog]

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.

 

[BlueGuy]

Ah! I'm wondering if he's using one of those crazy vendor 'recovery disk'.
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.

 

[theog]

Ah! I'm wondering if he's using one of those crazy vendor 'recovery disk'.
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.

Post 16

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

 

[BlueGuy]

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. :shock:

 

[gregrocker]

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.

 

[BlueGuy]

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."
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

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.

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'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.

 

[gregrocker]

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.

 

[BlueGuy]

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.

 

[AddRAM]

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.