Should i delete my "system reserved partition"?

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Shikaka

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Hello, first post on this forum

Im not sure if the title of this thread is correct, my windows 7 OS is using dutch as primary language, so im trying my best to translate everything

Well, the title is pretty much the thing i want to find out.
To explain, ill simply continue to write down everything relevant i know:


I was using a 500gb HDD with windows 7 (i suspect i upgraded from vista already), but then i found out about SSD's and i got myself one, an OCZ Vertex 2.
I was thinking of removing everything from my HDD, and installing windows 7 on my SSD.
This is not what happend, for some reason i kept a 100mb partition on my HDD from my old OS.
Since i know it's from my old HDD OS install im thinking about formatting it now. I have windows 7 on my SSD, and all my media and downloads on my HDD, as i initially intended.

When i look at my "drive management" screen, it says the following:

Drive 0:
- System Reserved 100MB NTFS -In good order- (System, Active, Primary partition)
- HDD (D: ) 470GB NTFS -In good order- (Primary partition)

Drive 1:
-SSD (C: ) 90 GB NTFS -In good order- (Start up, Swapfile, Crashdump, Primary partition)

The thing is, i can only guess what effect formatting the 100mb partition will have, but i know there are some persons out there that have the anwser.

Please, if you have any information for me, it would be appreciated.


Thanks for reading.
 
Likely, that partition is your recovery/restore partition. Wiping this out will prevent you from using Windows recovery to return your machine to factory initial state.

If you have created a full set of recovery CDs, from which you installed Win 7, then you can safely remove that partition.
 
Thanks for the response!

I see, i forgot about that.
However, would something like that interfere with the way my pc currently runs?
 
System reserved is because windows 7(not sure if Vista does it as well) creates it when installing, its not a recovery partition. Leave it alone, its only 100 mb.
 
That's the point, the 100mb is from a previous OS install back when i was using my HDD as my main drive.

Since then i installed windows 7 on my SSD, i dont think my current OS and the 100MB on my HDD are related. Couldnt i safely format it if that were the case?
 
Thanks for the reply, thanks to that link i know what it's used for now :P

I decided to keep the partition, after all its not giving me much trouble at the moment, but next time i install a OS it's going to be clean.
 
i think you can have a test:
power-off your PC, detach HDD(unplug the HDD power wire), power-on your PC

if your system can run normally as before, why you can't del the reserve partition?
 
futballman said:
why you can't del the reserve partition?
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You can delete it, but if you need to ever use the Windows Image Backup, without a System Reserved parition, you can't use it. I think Windows uses the System Reserved anyway, so I'd leave it alone, it's only 100MB.
 
If the system reserved is from an other windows, why not remove it? No harm in it. If you have installed a new Windows on your new harddrive (SSD) then you can safely remove the 100 MB partition. Because it's not related to your fresh new windows.
 
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