Windows 7 OS partition - problem

Tripp · 2 Jul 2010 at 20:45

ok second noob question of the day

after accidentally installing my OS on the wrong partion the first time i think ive fluffed my second install.

finished installing everything, went to defrag my C:\
c:\ appears in my computer but wont allow me to defrag it (using windows defrag anyway)

looking at disk manager its not showing as primary partition but the 100mb reserve is. have a look at the pic.

anyway i can change this without reinstalling, cheers

Temi_D · 3 Jul 2010 at 11:31

Everything looks normal, the way its supposed to be.

jpmonkey69 · 3 Jul 2010 at 11:45

Can you right click the c drive and select properties, then select to defrag from the tools tab or similar?

Tripp · 3 Jul 2010 at 11:54

thanks for the replies guys.

No, when i selected the defrag tools or anything similar C: was just not seen by the system

Problem seems to have been solved anyway as i was forced to reinstall again. Downloaded some of the windows updates, restarted and was greeted by "Bootmgr missing" error...odd

this has not been the smoothest install ive ever done.

icysniper · 3 Jul 2010 at 12:01

just format it all and start again from scratch tbh

point decay · 3 Jul 2010 at 15:23

had the same thing with my last install, nothing i could do to remove it.
luckily one of the MS auto updates removed or hid the partition, and everything is fine now.