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

FD