Your Win7 Install Experience?

[dmex]

I noticed while installing Win7 it creates a separate 200MB partition for "System features operation", I believe this partition is created for System Restore points which is great for system stability
What do you guys know about this separate partition it creates?

I also love the new boot-theme and the install time is rather awesome compared with Vista`s

How long did your install take?

 

[Brink]

Strange, it did not install a separate partition for me with the 32 or 64 bit Windows 7.



They did install pretty smoothly and quick though.

 

[smarteyeball]

The installation of the beta itself was very quick and relatively hassle free (apart from the fact it refused to install until I had reconnected my Vista drive) It was everything else that took forever....

Unfortunately MS still haven't fixed the "I'm a new OS installation and therefore the ONLY OS that matters. I know there other OS'es there, but watch me break them " mentality.


I am loving the restart / cold boot times though. Kapow!

 

[Juzz4Fun]

Well considering I loaded it onto a brand new multimedia system I just built, it was abit of a challange. First I tried the 32bit version disk I had but couldnt never get passed the finialization of the install so finially gave up on that thinking it was a bad disk, and tried the 64bit version. That one did eventually load up ok but now am left with two Windows 7 option when I reset or turn on the system.

One is the 64bit version and am assuming the other is the 32bit, when I select the 32bit version option it then goes back to wanting to continue the install process even though the disk isnt in the drive anymore, and it failed many times before that anyway. Weird...

 

[skunksmash]

all my Windows 7 installs were pretty painless, i had to reinstall 6801 after buggering the taskbar, but apart from that....plane sailing

im not seeing this 200mb partition either..?? W7 is on HDD2





SK

 

[Barman58]

Hi Guys,

the way I understand it the install will only create the 200MB boot partition when installed to a totally clean un-partitioned drive. If there is any previous structure existing on the disk then the install will respect this and just prompt for a location to install to

Oh and to answer the original question - have done about 10 installs now without any problems

 

[Juzz4Fun]

Hi Guys,

the way I understand it the install will only create the 200MB boot partition when installed to a totally clean un-partitioned drive.

Sounds right as it did add the 200megs to mine as it was a clean install.

 

[garysgold]

No 200 meg partition here either. All of my installs have gone pretty smooth. From the boot disk or from within Vista.

Gary

 

[mansrm81]

No problems here either just had to keep an eye on it when it restarted so I could select the drive from the boot menu so it wouldn't boot vista up.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Seems to me that 7 will keep the System partition separate from it's Boot partition.

Therefore :

1. If you have a System partition already on the hd, 7 will utilise that and install the o/s files on whichever partition you point it to. Thereby keeping separate System and Boot partitions.

2. If there is not a System partition already present , 7 will create it's own 200mb one - again keeping System and Boot partitions separate.

Don't know if there's a way of changing that , except, perhaps using the Command line in System Recovery options to physically move the contents of the System partition to the Boot one. Of course that would need to be set to active.

I use M$ speak here - System partition is the one containing Bootmgr. Boot partition is the one containing the o/s files, including the bootloader - winload.exe.

Haven't tried every possible scenario, so can't be 100% certain, but that seems to be the case.

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[chev65]

Yes Windows 7 did create a 200MB mini partition when installed to Raid0 with no other partition present. But when another OP system is on the partition it doesn't make one.

 

[pooch]

Well considering I loaded it onto a brand new multimedia system I just built, it was abit of a challange. First I tried the 32bit version disk I had but couldnt never get passed the finialization of the install so finially gave up on that thinking it was a bad disk, and tried the 64bit version. That one did eventually load up ok but now am left with two Windows 7 option when I reset or turn on the system.

One is the 64bit version and am assuming the other is the 32bit, when I select the 32bit version option it then goes back to wanting to continue the install process even though the disk isnt in the drive anymore, and it failed many times before that anyway. Weird...

Hi Juzz4Fun,

Type msconfig into search, press enter, select the boot tab. You can now delete the second entry then your compy will boot straight into x64

 

[swarfega]

So would it be worth creating this 200mb partition on drive c:, would it use it or would it only use it if it was set up during install?

 

[Barman58]

Hi swarfega,

AFAIK it's only created during install - without an option to manually create - well I've never seen any sign of it with the installs I've done

 

[swarfega]

shame :/ I like the idea.

 

[Barman58]

What I think will be interesting is how the major OEMs implement this - will the standard from Dell and the like include this thus adding even more confusion for the new user - 200 MB boot partition - System C: partition - restore partition - restore image and what's left for a data partition.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

I think it will only create the 200mb partition if it does not detect there is already a partition marked Active.

This is because it doesn't want to muck up your ability to boot into previous o/s you may have installed - possibly also to give the user some choice.

SIW2

 

[Juzz4Fun]

Hi Juzz4Fun,

Type msconfig into search, press enter, select the boot tab. You can now delete the second entry then your compy will boot straight into x64

Thanks, I had finially just reformated the whole disc drive and add a copy of Linux I had to see if it was my machine, or windows giving me fits. Well the Linux worked just fine so I then installed the 64 bit onto another hard drive I had in the system. This time it worked just fine and so far Windows has been cooperating pretty well.

 

[JerzeyLegend]

I did an upgrade from Vista Ultimate in about 7-10 minutes. HP 6735s is my PC.

 

[pooch]

Hi,

I think it will only create the 200mb partition if it does not detect there is already a partition marked Active.

This is because it doesn't want to muck up your ability to boot into previous o/s you may have installed - possibly also to give the user some choice.

SIW2

Apparently it will only create the 200mb partition if the drive is not formatted or if there are no existing partitions which makes you right