This is some very technical nitpicking stuff, but I noticed it and I couldn't help but ask, since maybe some of you know more about this.
I've been playing around with VirtualBox, installing Windows 7 in different ways, experimenting with the partitioning options here. (I've always installed without a System Reserved partition, as in the picture.)
EDIT:
Never mind what I posted before. Here's the gist of it:
If you format a small partition (like 100MB) and then expand it, Windows will take a bit longer to install and give you some some more free space on C: after installation [than if you format the expanded partition or don't format anything].
I'm not exactly sure why that is. At least not the space saving. Maybe when you format a very small partition it gets perhaps with a different cluster size or FAT32 instead of NTFS or something...
I've been playing around with VirtualBox, installing Windows 7 in different ways, experimenting with the partitioning options here. (I've always installed without a System Reserved partition, as in the picture.)
EDIT:
Never mind what I posted before. Here's the gist of it:
If you format a small partition (like 100MB) and then expand it, Windows will take a bit longer to install and give you some some more free space on C: after installation [than if you format the expanded partition or don't format anything].
I'm not exactly sure why that is. At least not the space saving. Maybe when you format a very small partition it gets perhaps with a different cluster size or FAT32 instead of NTFS or something...
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