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100MB partition (Win7 HP 64-bit)
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! -- SC Tom |
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