• Removing old unused "system reserved" partition
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I have a 1TB drive and a 256 GB drive. I've installed windows 7 on the new drive, and moved all my files over. I was planning on using my old drive as a backup for my important files. [img]http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6108/problemwd.png[/img] The problem is, I can't delete this irritating 100mb partition on my other drive, which used to contain my old windows 7 32-bit installation. But Windows won't let me get rid of it in Disk Management. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I realize that a few MB isn't a big deal, but it's annoying to have it there.
Use GParted to remove it
I don't think it's advisable to delete that partition. Windows automatically creates that partition during an install on a separate drive if you have more than one drive connected at the time of install (This is what I have noticed at least, correct me if I am wrong).
[QUOTE=bootv2;29126416]could be, and it's just 83mb anyways, better be safe than sorry.[/QUOTE] 7 does not make a partition like that. The MBR is always on the first sector and wont be overwritten. The only problem I see is that it would fuck up the boot manager but even then you can go into the recovery environment via the install cd and recover that: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392[/url] In theory it is just data but see if you can actually look at what is on the drive using a 3rd party tool (a visualizer would be best) and see which drive has what. If you don't like doing this just unassign it's drive letter and it will not show up.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;29127785]7 does not make a partition like that. The MBR is always on the first sector and wont be overwritten. The only problem I see is that it would fuck up the boot manager but even then you can go into the recovery environment via the install cd and recover that: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392[/url] In theory it is just data but see if you can actually look at what is on the drive using a 3rd party tool (a visualizer would be best) and see which drive has what. If you don't like doing this just unassign it's drive letter and it will not show up.[/QUOTE] The first sector is supposed to hold the partition data.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;29128345]The first sector is supposed to hold the partition data.[/QUOTE] That is in the MBR
MBR for dummies: First 446 bytes contains simple code to find the active parition and boot on that Next theres 64 bytes of 4 parition records, containing useless CHS addresses and 32-bit LBA addresses, this also means you can only have 4 partitions per drive, and each parition can be 2TB max Any modern OS supports GPT though, which supports 128 partitions with rediclous sizes
[QUOTE=jordguitar;29128418]That is in the MBR[/QUOTE] I just saw MFT when i saw MBR. Its just different shit, same boat. [editline]13th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Tobba;29134272]MBR for dummies: First 446 bytes contains simple code to find the active parition and boot on that Next theres 64 bytes of 4 parition records, containing useless CHS addresses and 32-bit LBA addresses, this also means you can only have 4 partitions per drive, and each parition can be 2TB max Any modern OS supports GPT though, which supports 128 partitions with rediclous sizes[/QUOTE] Currently, with BIOS, LBA restricts up to ~2.5TB of hard drive space. GPT is some stupid ridiculous size. However, BIOS was supposed to be dead a good thirty years ago. This means you cannot use a large hard drive as a primary to boot the OS off of. BIOS cannot handle that bullshit, since it was supposed to die 20 years ago. But the modern browser allows you to mount it, after the OS has loaded. Only apple PCs can boot off a large drive that exceeds the reach of LBA. Everyone else has been slacking.
It's not just Apple that are shipping UEFI systems, ASUS and Gigabyte (at least) are as well.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;29145579]It's not just Apple that are shipping UEFI systems, ASUS and Gigabyte (at least) are as well.[/QUOTE] The BIOS we all know and love/hate is currently being phased out and they are all now going with UEFI. It is being replaced extremely slowly but it is getting out there.
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