win 7 disk management and partition questions

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kenny1999

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I've installed a new 3.5" HDD which is 2T for storage purpose. At the same time I also clean installed the windows 7 again because it started running slow. However, I don't know what I've done. There is a 100MB small partition said to be reserved for the system, but this partition is on my new HDD. I've got two HDD and I intended to install win 7 to my old HDD. Now , windows 7 is on my old drive but there is 100MB space reserved for the system on the new drive. I tried to delete it but windows warned that it is in use.

It's so strange...

I don't want the 100MB space be allocated on the new HDD because if I take
away the new storage drive, I think the system won't even boot which does NOT make sense at all.

What can I do now?
 
The 100 mb partition is put there by default. You need to remove the other hard drive and boot up to see if windows loads. If not then just repair the install using the install disk.
 
Make sure you don't have two hard drives connected when you install Windows otherwise the bootmgr will install to the second drive.
 
The small partition is unavoidable. Windows needs it. If you have both disks plugged in when you install Windows, it will sometimes put the small partition on the secondary drive. That's very stupid, because if you remove the drive then you can't boot up Windows. I always make sure that only the drive I'm installing Windows on is connected.
You don't see the partition inside Windows, unless you go in to Disk Management. If you just open up My Computer, only your C:\ drive will be present.
 
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