"FD" wrote in message
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I have a much simple way of getting rid of this partition.

I have a CD with Acronis Disk Director.

Boot up from CD

Delete system reserved partion.

Mark Windows as active partition.

The system is now unbootable.

I would then boot with my windows 7 DVD and do a repair.

It will require 2-3 efforts to do repair and the windows will become
bootable.

I have also done that windows 8 Enterprise evaluation that
I am using. (90 day trial)


What a waste of time.


It may be a "waste of time" (about 10 minutes) but has made my task of
imaging with Acronis
and restoring images when necessary much less complicated


I use ATI also for my disk imaging (as stated in the OP in this thread), and
don't find that it complicates anything by including this tiny little
partition in the image, or restoring that image (I have since tested it out
on a spare HDD with no problems). If it was a 25GB+ partition, then I might
consider getting rid of it, but since it's not really hurting anything or
taking up necessary HDD space, I'll leave it as is.
--
SC Tom