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[COMPUTIAC]

I've looked at it all, and yes, the only problem is the Windows Index number for the storage device. It looks to be reading from the 96MB partition.

If I right click on the 96MB partition, it shows "empty"
Clicking on properties it shows this. Should I delete it ?

 

[kbrady1979]

I read that as well. I don't know what else to do that hasn't already been done, and I have no clue why it is reading that partition, even when the SSD is the only drive up and running.

 

[Dude]

The contiguous space note for the SSD explains it. A clean install will fix it. While it would be possible to defrag the ssd, I would do the clean install. I do not usually recommend a clean install, but this shows Computiac needs to.

 

[kbrady1979]

Can you locate and take a snippet of your disk management information? Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > "Left Column" Disk Management. You can also find it by clicking the Start button and typing in Computer Management > Disk Management.

 

[essenbe]

That was going to be my next suggestion, Kelly. But, if the boot files are on the 100MB partition and it is marked as active, that is the way it is supposed to be and is referred to by windows as the system drive. If the 'C' partition is the active partition, I would say delete the 100MB partition. It serves no purpose, right?

COMPUTIAC, did you partition the drive before installing?

 

[COMPUTIAC]

OK
If this 96MB partition is useless can I delete it or merge it ?

 

[COMPUTIAC]

That was going to be my next suggestion, Kelly. But, if the boot files are on the 100MB partition and it is marked as active, that is the way it is supposed to be and is referred to by windows as the system drive. If the 'C' partition is the active partition, I would say delete the 100MB partition. It serves no purpose, right?

COMPUTIAC, did you "partition the drive before installing"?

I think I did, bought a Partition program, can't think of the name.

 

[kbrady1979]

That is so odd!

 

[essenbe]

No, it is the active system partition. You can delete it, mark the C drive as active and run startup repair 3 times to get the disk to write the boot files to the C partition, but there's always the risk.

Compliments of Dude : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71363-system-reserved-partition-delete.html

 

[Dude]

Hey guys, I sent Greg a message to take a look at this, he is a install expert, maybe he can help.

 

[essenbe]

That is so odd!

I agree with that Kelly. I have 8 SSds and thought I had done about everything you could do with or to one, and have helped on at least 100 SSD threads. But, I have never seen anything like this. Just when you thought you'd seen everything......

EDIT: COMPUTIAC, have you ever run sfc /scannow?

 

[Dude]

No, it is the active system partition. You can delete it, mark the C drive as active and run startup repair 3 times to get the disk to write the boot files to the C partition, but there's always the risk.

Compliments of Dude : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71363-system-reserved-partition-delete.html

Im confused essenbe

 

[essenbe]

I was saying, if it is the active partition, that means windows is booting from it. If you simply delete it, windows will not boot. But, you wrote the tutorial of how to delete it and get windows to boot from the C partition. Is that not correct?

 

[kbrady1979]

Computiac, do you remember exactly what you did with the partition program?

 

[Dude]

I was saying, if it is the active partition, that means windows is booting from it. If you simply delete it, windows will not boot. But, you wrote the tutorial of how to delete it and get windows to boot from the C partition. Is that not correct?

Jonathan_King wrote that tutorial

 

[essenbe]

Well, I'll be darned, you're right, as usual. It must be the hat that confused me. Change hats, I'm easy to confuse.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Computiac, do you remember exactly what you did with the partition program?

Found the disk I burned, it is Partition Wizard Mini tool.

The date on it is 3.24.13 which means I used this when I moved the OS from the HDD to the SSD on the old HP machine.

I did not use it on the clean install of the new machine at all. Sorry for the confusion on that.

There was a problem after doing the first clean install, I lost some functions and could not get them back for some reason.

Then I did a second clean install, because I did not have a repair disk at the time, and have been on it since. It did create a Windows Old file, which I deleted.

So maybe there is really nothing on the 96MB partition since it shows as empty ?

 

[Dude]

Well, I'll be darned, you're right, as usual. It must be the hat that confused me. Change hats, I'm easy to confuse.

No worries, that is a great tut. I read on Toms hardware someone similar issue but cant find the link in my history:banghead:

I think with the contiguous space note a clean install will fix it. I say that again because that is usually a last resort in my recommendations. However others may know a fix without doing that

Found it

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280334-32-score

the post by Ramsdal, but I would never defrag a SSD

 

[essenbe]

My fix is a clean install and not have the 100MB partition, I've never had one. But that tut will do the same thing, if he has no other problems.

 

[gregrocker]

I would run all available rounds of Important and Optional Updates after enabling Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware (Step 3) to see if Win7 offers drivers it prefers.

But if you replaced drivers Win7 wanted during install like in XP then it may be too late. Win7 is a driver-complete OS in the installer and via Windows Updates, so the best rule of thumb is only to supply missing drivers after all rounds of Updates are finished. Then wait to see if performance points to any problem drivers.

There are other tips in Clean Reinstall that apply to retail as well as OEM, compiling the tools and methods which have worked best for tens of thousands of installs we've helped with here. So if you varied much from those methods I would consider reinstalling. It can't hurt and might help.

In your case I would first wipe the SSD with Diskpart Clean Command as scripted in Step 2 of SSD - HDD Optimize for Windows Reinstallation which provides every partitioning advantage for you while leaving out the System Reserved partition which looks dodgy in your screenshot.