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Reserved space on old HDD

roguerower

roguerower

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I used to have a WD Black 640gb HDD acting as my boot drive with OS and programs on it. I just bought a Intel X-25M and changed by boot over to it. When I installed W7 32-bit the 640gb HDD came up as having two partitions, one normal one which still had a copy of W7 on it (as now been wiped clean) and then one that shows up as a "Reserved Space" drive. Any idea how I can get rid of it or merge the two back together? The disks in question are E: and H:

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Edit: Both were just formated and while one shows clear, the other does not...
 
Although the naming is a bit strange, Win7 will install a 100MB "System Reserved" partition on the boot disk when Win7 is installed from scratch. This partition is normally unlettered. ASSUMING that the WDC drive was removed when Win7 was installed to the new SSD, then you can likely safely delete the partition using DISKPART under an Administrator-level Command Prompt.

However, if your system happens to still be using the System Reserved partition for booting, the computer won't boot anymore. I'd want to see a Disk Management view of the disks to see what Windows thinks of that partition. It's probably safe to remove that partition....but...

Or, just disconnect the WDC disk and then see if your PC still boots. If it boots, then you can remove that reserved partition.
 
RebateMonger said:
Although the naming is a bit strange, Win7 will install a 100MB "System Reserved" partition on the boot disk when Win7 is installed from scratch. This partition is normally unlettered. ASSUMING that the WDC drive was removed when Win7 was installed to the new SSD, then you can likely safely delete the partition using DISKPART under an Administrator-level Command Prompt.

However, if your system happens to still be using the System Reserved partition for booting, the computer won't boot anymore. I'd want to see a Disk Management view of the disks to see what Windows thinks of that partition. It's probably safe to remove that partition....but...

Or, just disconnect the WDC disk and then see if your PC still boots. If it boots, then you can remove that reserved partition.
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