Windows 7 didn't make100 mb. hidden partition during clean re-install

I did a clean re-install of Windows 7 the other day. Today when I looked in Disk Management I noticed a few problems. #1 I reformatted both my hard drives before the clean install and Windows didn't make the 100 mb. hidden system partition on this clean install. On every other clean install it has made that partition. Problem #2 Even though I installed Windows 7 on disk 0 (which is C Disk Management show it as Disk 1 and shows my 2nd hard drive (disk D in Disk Management. All updates are installed. M.S.E., SUPERAntiSpyware free and Malwarebytes free have all found no malware in regular or safe mode. sfc /scannow in safe mode found no problems. CheckDisk found no problems on either hard drive. Secunia PSI comes up as everything updated. Slim Drivers and Driver Agent both say my drivers are up to date. All usb cables other than my UPS were unhooked during install. Windows 7 SP1 and office Home & Student SP2 are both fully updated according to Microsoft/Windows Update.

If you want Windows to create the 100MB partition, you will need to install to an unallocated space on the drive. This is usually done by deleting the active partition and then installing to that empty space.

If I delete the Active Partition Windows 7 would be gone, as C: is the Active Partition and D: is all my personal files. If I have to do that I misewell either reinstall 7 or ditch 7 altogether and go back to Vista.

That's your decision. Anytime Windows 7 is installed to an existing partition, the 100MB System Reserved partition is not created.

You can go ahead and delete the C partition and install to that unallocated space leaving the D partition intact.

This is one of the reasons I always emphasize that users store their personal files and other important data on a separate hard drive; either an internal one or external one.

Personally I never use or have ever needed the extra 100MB partition and make sure it's not created on purpose when I install Win 7. It's a personal preferance to me and does not "break" Win 7 to not have it.

Exactly! Why is this seen as a problem brkkab123?

I ran Win 7 on my OEM drive w/o after deleting it, as I needed another primary for dual boot. After deletion, I did have to use my repair disc to repair & boot the OS's. but everything was fine afterwards.

Cat

SOLVED.I'll get my answer elsewhere. Installation was to a reformatted clean hard drive.

And how do you do that? I have not found a way to do that with a Win7 disk. So I always format and partition the drive with a Vista disk first, then install Windows 7.

Draceena mentioned in another thread after Windows 7 creates both partitions, delete the main partition and expand the 100MB partition for installation.