Comments on: How to Avoid 200MB Hidden System Partition From Been Created During Windows 7 Installation

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:51:17 +0000

Q: what possible reason could you have for not wanting it and the benefits it provides?

Some peoples are running more that Windows…
and want more control over their O/S…

By: Stevedeeg

Stevedeeg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:32:09 +0000

What I do find odd is that the hidden partition is automatically installed on the first IDE drive, regardless of what HDD your main partition is installed on. It is an annoyance when you are using mobile HDD racks.

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By: Oh hooooh

Oh hooooh — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:23:59 +0000

So windows 7 creates a “secret” 200MB partition which is designed to prevent your access to it. Why whould anyone go to all this trouble? it makes no sence, but it does if you put yourself in the designers shoes.

As MS are the chaps who make win7, start looking at them, ask yourself, why would they do this to your computer hard drive in secret.

Is it possible they want a secret area of your hard drive setup so they can place in this secret area secret software or several secret tools to prevent you from returning your PC to a known “unsecret” previous condition?
Is there going to be any “spying activerty” done by them or government agency that can run a special system command to access your PC without you being the wiser of it?

Say you decide to remove a security update file in windows, reboot and the internal OS does a sys check, finds you have removed a file, it might be able to “replace” that file autimaticly.

MS could even setup special software to be enabled by a hidden command from them or a gov agency, how would we know this hidden partition was being used honestly?

Well “secret” hidden partitions, created at system creation, smell big brouther trouble to me big time.

Keep your XP or W98 install cds, for emergency.

By: Jordan Borean

Jordan Borean — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:43:05 +0000

The best way to not install this is to create a partition, delete the non 100MB 1 and the extened the 100MB onto the larger one and that creates one whole partition.

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By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:34:29 +0000

@Brandon
Many programs require the first partition to be the OS containing partition. eg: whole drive encryption programs.

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By: pceasies

pceasies — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:05:17 +0000

It doesn’t bother me that it creates a partition, it bothers me that it sues 2 primary partitions allowing only 2 additional operating systems to be installed, or a dual boot with a dedicated boot partition. It would be better if it put Windows 7 in a Logical Partition inside an Extended. That way you can expand the extended and keep more Primaries.

By: fyrekrig

fyrekrig — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:44:33 +0000

I followed you instruction but still a 100MB partition is created!

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By: T

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:10:08 +0000

@Brandon
Many who do this do it for a reason. Mine personally is for Truecrypt full disk encryption. Bitlocker doesn’t work on machines without the TPM, I think it is, and if you use a work around you’re likely run into other problems.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:55:44 +0000

Other operating systems (linux, BSD) create a root partition. However, unlike Windows 7, they don’t hide it from the computer owner. Saying that it’s used for recovery is a false pretense.

A simple solution would be to provide end users with a live CD, similar to those used to repair linux systems.

I wanted to try Windows 7 but now I think I’ll pass. I don’t have time for such nonsense.

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By: raid fan

raid fan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:44:44 +0000

i too have the 200 mb allocation.(Win7 install) I was a first time raid installer. I thought i screwed it all up. Glad it wasn’t me. thanks, RF