Lyn Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I have just installed Win7 (full retail version) onto a brand new non partitioned 600gb hard drive. Win7 found the HDD and installed without a problem. Checking the drive in Disk Manager, I found that it had created a small partition tagged "System" with nothing in it. Win7 was installed on the rest of the drive in the other large partition. I have previously installed Win7 on a pre partitioned HDD, with just a primary partition, and Win7 installed into it, without creating another small partition. Why did this happen? Regards, Lyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmiG Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Win7 has always created that partition for me, but maybe it's possible to fool it if you pre-create the partitions before you run setup. The partition holds the boot manager and Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) so you can boot into recovery mode without using the Win7 DVD. Well worth the extra 100MB IMO, in the age of terabyte hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyn Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 Thank you, that explains it. It's nice to know why these things happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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