windows 7 system reserved partition not created?

[SimonC]

Reinstalling Windows 7 on a Dell laptop, I had three partitions, system reserved, OS and the recovery partition.
So deleted the os and system reserved partition, I want to keep the recovery partition for now, and I thought the now two unallocated partitions would become one, but they never did.
So I installed Windows and now I have no system reserved partition, instead I have a 40mb unallocated partition.

Did I balls up the reinstall?

 

[teaboy5]

Reinstalling Windows 7 on a Dell laptop, I had three partitions, system reserved, OS and the recovery partition.
So deleted the os and system reserved partition, I want to keep the recovery partition for now, and I thought the now two unallocated partitions would become one, but they never did.
So I installed Windows and now I have no system reserved partition, instead I have a 40mb unallocated partition.

Did I balls up the reinstall?

You should have deleted the 40mb one on the partitions screen and it would have become one with the OS partition.

Its no big deal, its only 40mb.

 

[SimonC]

I deleted both the os and 40 mb system reserved partition, but they never became one parition, I tried to create one new partition but that didn't work either.
So do I not need the system reserved partition?

 

[theheyes]

At this point if it boots and you have no intention of enabling bitlocker I'd just leave it alone. 40 Meg of unallocated space isn't gonna do any harm.

 

[SimonC]

At the moment, no I won't be using bitlocker, however it will bug me if its not right.

Was it the recovery partition that is causing the problem?