Re: Off topic - Windows 7 partitioning
"Keith T. Garner" <[email protected]>
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Could that be GPT? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table I just learned/started playing with GPT last week and that's one of the things it appears like, the 100MB (or 200 in some cases) first partition to store the information for the rest of them. Keith On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Jay Strauss wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Gene Jannece <[email protected]> wrote: > If I remember correctly, i think the extra 100 megs partition acts as a emergency rescue disc. I've always just left it on. It's only a 100 megs out of a 1TB drive. > Gene > > Yes when you install win 7 it creates an extra partition of 100MB out of the space you allocate for c: > > I'm not sure how its used. So in my situation I'd end up with 3 partitions, emergency, c:, d: > > Jay > -- > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni -- Keith T. Garner [email protected] "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel H. Burnham -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni