Reserved partition

[bagavan]

How can I view the files stored in the system reserved partition?

 

[ionbasa]

what exactly do you mean by a reserved partition?
are you refering to a hidden partition w/o a drive letter or are you refering to a OEM system restore partition?

 

[bagavan]

what exactly do you mean by a reserved partition?
are you refering to a hidden partition w/o a drive letter or are you refering to a OEM system restore partition?

Thats the one

 

[ionbasa]

which one? notice the OR:
are you refering to a hidden partition w/o a drive letter or are you refering to a OEM system restore partition?

 

[bagavan]

which one? notice the OR:
are you refering to a hidden partition w/o a drive letter or are you refering to a OEM system restore partition?

hidden partition w/o a drive letter

 

[ionbasa]

okay so:
1) click the start orb
2) right click computer and select manage
3)this window will open:

4)select Disk managment in the left plane
5) you will get something simmilar to this:

6) can you post a snippet of what your hdd partitions look like?

 

[bagavan]

okay so:
1) click the start orb
2) right click computer and select manage
3)this window will open:
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4)select Disk managment in the left plane
5) you will get something simmilar to this:
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6) can you post a snippet of what your hdd partitions look like?

I want to view the files.

 

[ionbasa]

yes, but first we must give your partition a drive letter and i was going to show you how, but i need to know which partition it is, that way I can tell you how to actualy give a drive letter to partition.

 

[bagavan]

here you go.

 

[ionbasa]

okay from the looks of this I belive you are reffering to the 100Mb partion?

 

[bagavan]

Yes.How do I see what files are there?

 

[ionbasa]

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/10408-whats-100mb-partition-can-i-delete.html
its reserved for windows 7, basically it holds the boot information

 

[Dzomlija]

Yes.How do I see what files are there?

You will need to assign a drive letter to that partition, but if I may say so, I'd advise against it, because if anything goes wrong there, then you'll end up with an unbootable system. That's why Microsoft does not assign a drive letter and only makes it 100MB (so as not to take up too much space).

My advice is to leave it alone. There's nothing of interest there.

 

[gregrocker]

It holds the boot files and a SysVolume file used if you image it. It reports the correct size in Disk Mgmt so I'd leave it alone.

It will be useful if you decide to Dual Boot and its presence enables the Repair My Computer console to be placed on the F8 Advanced Boot Tools menu so you don't have to have the DVD/Repair CD to repair Win7.