Hide your 100mb system reserved volume with diskpart.

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Belarathon, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. Belarathon

    Belarathon MDL Senior Member

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    I thought I'd pass this along for anyone else that hadn't figured this out:

    1) Open a command prompt and type "diskpart" and hit enter.
    2) Type "list volume" and hit enter.
    3) Among the listed volumes, you'll see the 100mb system partition; in my case it is volume 1.
    4) Type "select volume _", (inserting the appropriate volume number).
    5) Just to the right of the numbered volumes, you'll see the corresponding drive letter listed. Note the drive letter, then type: "remove letter _", inserting the observed drive letter. Hit enter.

    That's it.
     
  2. ODY123

    ODY123 MDL Expert

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    I only have one partition for 7989, I do not have 100mb system partition.
     
  3. BobSheep

    BobSheep MDL Guru

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    Normal installations do not assign a drive letter to the hidden partition. In any case you can use the Virtual Disk Manager.

    Right click My Computer/Disk Management
    Right click the partition/Change Driver Letter and Paths
     
  4. Belarathon

    Belarathon MDL Senior Member

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    Right...I'm not on 7989 right now, but I've installed 7955 a few times, from various source files. In each instance, the reserved partition had been assigned a driver letter. I'd never had that happen with Windows 7, so I just assumed it was a bug with 7955.
     
  5. bisdak4920

    bisdak4920 MDL Junior Member

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    Format your drive before installing windows and you will not get the 100mb partition.
     
  6. ODY123

    ODY123 MDL Expert

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    +1 Boot and format from your partition utilities DVD, not from your windows installations. If you format from windows installation, it'll assign 100mb system partition...
     
  7. Belarathon

    Belarathon MDL Senior Member

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    Aha! That explains it. A long time ago, I had used Hiren's boot disk to prepare my HDD before installing Windows. No reserved partition was installed.
     
  8. ODY123

    ODY123 MDL Expert

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    That's what I used...
     
  9. bisdak4920

    bisdak4920 MDL Junior Member

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    Beg to disagree. I've been doing formatting with win installation and no system partition will be created at least in win 8 7989 and win 7.
     
  10. ODY123

    ODY123 MDL Expert

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    It's there, you just don't see it. At least with win 7, not sure about 7989 though.
     
  11. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser
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    #11 Tito, Jul 1, 2011
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    May be he was using the patched dll by nononsence ;)
     
  12. Skylined

    Skylined MDL Member

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    When you install Windows 7 on a clean hard disk (without any partitions) it creates this small 100mb partition, you are not supposed to see this, correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is for the BitLocker feature in Ultimate edition, so if you are not using Bitlocker... you can use something like Gparted from a Ubuntu Live CD to get rid of the partition, or use Disk management in Windows and remove the drive letter for a quick fix.
     
  13. ODY123

    ODY123 MDL Expert

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    If you let windows installation format your hard drive, even a single partition, it'll create a 100mb partition, nothing to do with bitlocker.
     
  14. preetish amballi

    preetish amballi MDL Novice

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  15. Cosmic101

    Cosmic101 MDL Novice

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    Just a quick note, the hidden partition in windows 8 is 350 MB, That 100 MB partition is a left over from a windows 7 installation.
     
  16. EFA11

    EFA11 Avatar Guru

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    This HP oem with Win8Core has 400mb recovery hidden and 260mb EFI partition. There isn't a 100mb here hehe
     
  17. Cosmic101

    Cosmic101 MDL Novice

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    #17 Cosmic101, Nov 10, 2012
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    I wonder what the oem partition has in it that the rtm does not ? :confused:
    do you know what is different in it.
    And I'm just using a legacy BIOS, not a new UEFI unfortunately so i don't have that partition either.
    But it's good to know :)
    Is the UEFI partition hidden ?
     
  18. Shenj

    Shenj MDL Expert

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    If you clean install W8 (remove all partitions) you will get 4 Partitions on UEFI/GPT
    Recovery (300MB), EFI (100MB), MSR(128MB), Primary
     
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  19. Cosmic101

    Cosmic101 MDL Novice

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    That does depended on the hardware you are installing it on, As i only have two of those the 350mb system reserved (Hidden), and the main Primary.
     
  20. Shenj

    Shenj MDL Expert

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    Was that too hard to read? I clearly said "ON UEFI/GPT"
     
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