How to Delete the Windows 7 System Reserved Partition

This sis the easiest way to remove the 100Mb system reserved partition Windows creates when installing.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP\ SNAPSHOT THERE IS THE POTENTIAL YOU MACHINE WILL NOT BOOT AFTER FOLLOWING THESE STEPS

1) Open a command prompt with administrator privileges (right click => run as administrator)

Type:

bcdboot c:\windows /s c:

You should get a message similar to:

Boot files successfully created.

2) Open the Disk Management GUI (you could use diskpart for scripts), locate the C:\ partition right-click and select “Mark Partition as Active”, select yes to the “do you want to continue message”

3) Reboot to confirm that everything is ok.

4) In Disk Management you can now delete the 100Mb System Reserved partition by right clicking on it and selecting “Delete volume”

Optional

5) To re-claim the 100Mb you can use a partitioning tool such as partition magic or gparted

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