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Old October 1st 12, 09:35 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
SC Tom[_3_]
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Default 100MB partition (Win7 HP 64-bit)



"Ed Cryer" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:
I recently bought a new Acer Aspire V3 laptop that came with the Win7
64-bit setup partition. I ran it, installed Win7, cleaned all the crap
off I didn't want/need, and installed some of the programs I wanted on
it (still more to go- that's an ongoing thing, IYKWIM). After I got
things the way I wanted, I booted from my ATI CD to create an image of
the whole drive, including the hidden "PQService" recovery partition,
the 100MB "System Reserved" one, and of course, my C: partition.

The question I have is, if I just created an image of the C: partition
without the other two partitions, and restored the C: to a new drive, is
that new drive going to boot on its own, or do you think I'll have to
run Startup Repair to do it? In Disk Management, the System Reserved
partition just says "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)",
whereas my C: says "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary
Partition)". That leads me to believe that C: will boot on its own, but
just thought I'd ask the opinion of others here.

I haven't tried deleting the 100MB partition as per the instructions
he

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=409

since 100MB one way or the other is not really taking a bite out of my
500GB drive. If I get to the point where I need that 100MB, I think
it'll be time for a new, larger drive :-)

TIA!


That's exactly the situation with my last two Acer desktops.

My recovery partition is 100% free; the system reserved 70% free. That
means that it takes the blink of an eye to back them both up. So what I do
each month or so is take a system image of the whole drive. I have 1TB C,
1TB D (which I hardly ever use, preferring to keep all my music and such
on an external disk. The image contains all four partitions.

I do this for the possibility of total disk replacement. In that case the
procedure would be;
1. Replace HD.
2. Restore from last image.

You could, of course, use your plan B; backup just C. And then in the case
of total disk replacement you'd just have to add Start-up Repair as item
3. But that might not create the Acer-style system reserved; probably
won't. And that makes me wary because maybe some Acer utilities need that.
Hence my tactic of putting it on the backup.

That was pretty much my line of thinking, just continue with whole drive
images; it's not hurting anything the way it is, and if I ever get rid of
the laptop, I can always do the Fn+F10 (or Alt+F10, I don't remember which
right now) at boot-up to restore it to factory. The 16GB recovery partition
isn't hurting anything, and certainly isn't making me hurt for space,
either; some games take up almost that much :-)

Thanks for your response!
--
SC Tom


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