partitioning Problem

[Ted Harris]

I just completed installing W7 Home Premium. I thought successfully until I noticed that the installation did not give me two partitions as I thought that I told it to. HHD is a WD SATA2 1TB. Upon completion I find that I have just a C drive with the OS installed in that. I wanted and thought that I clicked 100 GBs for the OS and the rest as the other drive. I thought that things were going too well. Is there a solution to this?

 

[AFurryReptile]

Just fix it from within Windows.

Right click Computer, go to Manage. Look at disk management, and format your unallocated space. Assign it a drive letter and you're gold.

 

[razel]

If you formatted using NTFS, you can shrink your partition in Disk Manager. Shrinking in Disk Manager can be odd at times. I encountered situations where with a new partition with no content, I couldn't shrink more than half it size at one time. You can after shrinking continue to shrink the same partition until you get it to the size you want.

 

[Ted Harris]

Thanks Afurry, by the way what is the partition that i have now called "System Reserved"? I have it down to 100 GB but I can't get rid of it. Including this, I now have two partitions. I have this System Reserved which I have temporarily named A. Then I now have a C drive with 835 GBIs that is where my OS still is. I know I have a bad case of dumb, but I am on strange ground here.

 

[Blazer7]

This is a Win7 system partition that the OS keeps data that are required for the system to boot. AFAIK disk manager won't allow you to delete this partition as doing so could cause the system to not boot so leave it as is.

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Win7 also uses the reserved partition for storing recovery options and for protection against malicious programs and accidental damage by the user.

 

[RebateMonger]

The System Reserved partition that's created is 100 MEGABYTES in size. If you remove it now, your PC won't boot. Just leave it alone.

 

[Ted Harris]

thanks for your help