[TUTORIAL]Delete W7's Reserved Partition After Install & Keep All Your Data

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by murdercitydevil, Sep 14, 2009.

  1. Rosco

    Rosco MDL Addicted

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    What a waste of space - I'd like to see the people who did this run Bitlocker.

    And - 100 Mb on disks that can be 2000 times the size - risk things for less than 0.1 % gain - c'mon !!

    Running Bitlocker was the main reason M$ changed this from Vista - you have to have an unencrypted boot partition or no boot !
     
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  2. Majestic

    Majestic MDL Junior Member

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    #22 Majestic, Jun 18, 2010
    Last edited: Jun 18, 2010
    You have two partitions of a say, 250 GB hard disk:
    i) the 100 MB reserved partition and
    ii) the Primary Drive of 249.9 GB

    What you can do to delete the 100 MB reserved partition is as follows:

    1) Delete the Primary Drive so it becomes
    i) 100 MB reserved partition
    ii) 249.9 GB Unallocated Space

    2) Select the 100 MB reserved partition

    3) Select "Extend" and enter a partition size for your System Drive, say 100GB

    This will create two partitions:

    i) 100 GB as your System Drive without the 100 MB
    ii) the remaining 150 GB as a primary partition.

    By the way, the above method is before you have installed your W7
     
  3. torko26

    torko26 MDL Senior Member

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    Begin the installation from system !!!
     
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  4. Rosco

    Rosco MDL Addicted

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    Now this thread has become silly - if you want to not have the 100 MB System partition BEFORE you install then you simply create the partition layout you want either before or during install.

    I thought this started out as a way to remove it AFTER install - and that is silly too.
     
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