system partition

Hello! i am trying to boot the Win 7 with ghost image made on identical computer. When i was making the image, i have seen that there is hidden (2GB if i remember well) system partition, so i made recovery point of that hidden partition (i didnt know for what it is) and C. I am not backing up...

I have installed Windows 7 on my D:\ drive. I have placed a NEW installation on my C:\ drive besides it. See the attached image. I ONLY use the W7 on the C:\ drive now, so I want to delete my D:\ partition completely (416GB). HOWEVER, I see that it is labeled: "System, Active, Primary...

The small 200MB partition actually holds Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which only available from DVD installation disc in previous operating system such as Windows Vista (see how to launch WinRE on DVD). The partition holds system files and bootable files that are essential to boot the...

Trouble with Dual Boot two installs of Windows 7 on different partitions - SOLVED I am a musician and use my computer for my recording. I also use the same machine for everyday use. In order to keep my music system clean and optimized, I would run a dual boot of Windows XP. I successfully...

Hi I have just upgraded from Vista to Win 7 Premimum on a new Toshiba laptop with 1 disk drive partionioned into C;(system) and Data drive. When attemting to run MS backup i get a error message saying VSS has failed. In the Appliction log i get the following following 4 entries (in the order in...

Ok, so the first thing I had is this: "setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" and its the main problem. Atm I have: 1x 200GB Sata hdd (3 partitions: 90gb WindowsXP, 100GB for stuff, 10GB for backup) 1x 500GB Sata hdd - this is a new HDD...

Hey! Just started to install my Windows 7. Started good and all but when I came to the section where I should chose where I wanted to install my Windows 7 it stands that it couldnt find a system partition. Even though it stands that the partition I want to install it on is off the type SYSTEM...

I am having trouble with a clean install of Win7. I installed/formatted a new HD in prep for installing Win7. Installion went fine. Got to desktop. Everything looked great. Began loading updates, drivers, software. Was directed to reboot system to complete install, then got a message that...

I have got Windows 7 working by upgrading from Vista and now have a dual boot system. I cannot find out how to delete the vista partition or any other way of reclaiming half the disk! W7 won't let me partition, format or delete the vista partition. Can someone tell me how to do it?

I have a problem. On my hard disk I have 2 OS's intstalled, Vista and Win 7. The win 7 partition is a 50GB logical drive. Vista is a primary partition. I want to get rid of the vista partition and extend win 7 to that now available space. Problem is, only Vista is marked as 'System' and i'm...

I have a dual boot of Vista and Windows 7. Vista was install first, I partitioned my hard drive and then installed 7 (clean) on the new partition. I have installed my programs everything runs great on the 7 partition. When booted to 7 Disk Management shows the partition of 7 as C: (Boot,Page...

Worked on this for a few hours tonight and have become disheartened enough to ask for help. I cleared two of my 640gig WD caviar blacks in preparation of this fresh windows 7 install. I have a copy of Win 7 Pro x64 through my school (MSDNAA) and am trying to install it on to these disks...

My windows 7 install is using about 13GB. I want to keep all (as much as possble) my data out of the Windows install partition. If I view the properties on the USER->MY-ACCOUNT folder, the dialog says 2GB. If I navigate into the folder all the subfolders (Contacts, Desktop, Downloads...

well ... i've created a new partition in NTFS format but when i want to install the windows 7 on this drive it says that => Setup was unable to use the existing system partition because it doesn't contain the required free space" that's how i have 36gb freespace in that partition !!! what...

I just installed WIndows 7 Ultimate RTM on my machine. My hardisk has several partitions. The primary partiton is C. But it was of only 10GB, so I decided to install the Windows 7 on D drive. Everything is done smoothly except that, after the installation the i can't see my C drive. And all...

Hello there. I'm trying to install Win7 RC x64 (build 7100) in my desktop but not success so far. When I try to install, I get the following message: Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition. Error: 0x80300024 My hardware involved: - a 160GB Sata HD...

Hello, I have installed the Windows 7 7100 on my hard disk. During the installation process, I choice only one partition (full hard disk capacity). After the complete installation, without problems, I boot on a CD backup software and I see two partitions. Do you know why these two partitions...

Hello everyone, i'm new here. I've just installed Windows 7 Rc on my Hp notebook (build 7100) along with Vista in dualboot mode. Now i've got 3 partitions, one for vista one for 7 and another called Hp recovery. I'd like to try and use 7 alone, completing deleting vista. Problem is my vista...

I have got Ubuntu installed on Disk 0, XP (C:) on 80GB partition, DATA (F:) on 287GB and new WIN7 (E:) 97GB partition (all NTFS) on Disk 1 and I'm trying to install Windows 7 RC in this new WIN7 partition restarted PC with Win 7 DVD followed instructions on Install Windows page...

:( Incredibly frustrated by a dozen or more attempts at a clean installation of Windows 7 RC1 x64 on a brand new system I just built! Win7 RC1 (x64) simply will NOT install in a RAID 0 configuration on my setup. Each time my installation process stalls with the same message: "Setup was unable...