Advice Needed: Installing Windows 7 Clean (Partitions)

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I'm trying to install Windows 7 Home (64bit) on a clean PC.

It has a 500GB drive and I want to install onto a 150GB partition (C:) leaving me with a 350GB partition (D:)

I have selected the custom and advanced options and reached the point where windows is showing me that I have a single drive

Disk 0: Unallocated Space - 465.8GB

I could simply install to this.

If I select New and add a 150GB partition I get the following

Disk 0: Partition 1: System Reserved 100MB
Disk 0: Partition 2: 146.4GB (Primary)
Disk 0: Unallocated Space 319.2GB

What is the 'System Reserved' all about and if I proceed will I end up with 3 drives

Disk C: a tiny 100MB
Disk D: 146GB
Disk E: 319GB (once I have formatted it etc.)

If so I don't really want a tiny C: drive. Is there any way around this?

Appreciate any help from someone who has been here before.

Cheers,

Nigel
 
it wont show up as an extra drive so you would still only have c:146 and d:319
as far as im aware, the 100MB bit is used for the boot manager and the bitlockers stuff if you use it.
 
Win7 home doesn't have bitlocker. I'm using professional Win 7 x64 and I've never seen that before. Surely if you fully format the disk (not quick format) using the installation cd that will go away?
 
Many thanks for the reply.

I'm not bothered about 'losing' the 100MB, just didn't want it to show up as a drive.

You are all quite right that it doesn't shown up - I have installed now.

Many thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Nigel
 
Mine did show up as a drive (a). Googled a tweak that allowed me to hide it again.
 
I'm sure there are many other ways, but I used a piece of shareware called Windows 7 Manager
 
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