Well......ive not seen this before

Jamin280672 · 11 Apr 2014 at 07:24

Here's one for you, whats wrong with this picture ?

I'll give you a clue, this is a fresh install of windows.
Im just curious as to why this has happened as ive never seen it before, if you cant see what I mean i'll leave you guessing for a while.

rpstewart · 11 Apr 2014 at 08:35

The system's booting off the HDD, not the SSD. Its a common problem if there are multiple drives available when you install. Windows will put the boot files on whichever disk it resolves as disk0 at the time, regardless of where you ask it to install itself. This is why its always advisable to only have a single drive connected at install time.

Jamin280672 · 11 Apr 2014 at 09:15

What I actually saw was the system reserve partition that windows normally creates before installing windows itself, normally 100mb is missing completely and looks like it's not been created, never seen this before.

Ripshod · 11 Apr 2014 at 09:49

windows will only ever make that partition if it needs to. As rpstewart points out, this will be when your boot drive is anything other than the drive windows is installed on.

I'd be more surprised to see this reversed

ZXSpectrum · 11 Apr 2014 at 10:43

Nah windows will always create that if you install manually and let it do what it likes with the disks. You can do a little trick to remove it and if you use an autounnatend.xml file you can set it so it doesn't create that as standard. Its mainly required for bitlocker but can be a pain when imaging/deploying/offsetting partitions etc.

tipes · 11 Apr 2014 at 11:31

ZXSpectrum said:
Nah windows will always create that if you install manually and let it do what it likes with the disks. You can do a little trick to remove it and if you use an autounnatend.xml file you can set it so it doesn't create that as standard. Its mainly required for bitlocker but can be a pain when imaging/deploying/offsetting partitions etc.

This sounds useful - care to elaborate on how you do this, for the rest of us.

Mark

Jamin280672 · 11 Apr 2014 at 12:35

I'll give you a copy of my mates windows DVD lol, it seems to be doing it itself.

ZXSpectrum · 11 Apr 2014 at 13:04

tipes said:
This sounds useful - care to elaborate on how you do this, for the rest of us.

Mark

Yeah sure... here ya go!

http://www.mydigitallife.info/hack-...reserved-partition-when-installing-windows-7/

tipes · 11 Apr 2014 at 16:59

ZXSpectrum said:
Yeah sure... here ya go!

http://www.mydigitallife.info/hack-...reserved-partition-when-installing-windows-7/

Many thanks - will try this on next clean install. People are so helpful on here, cheers buddy.

Mark

bledd · 13 Apr 2014 at 19:30

Tbh, it's leave it create the partition