Windows 7 and that pesky System Partition November 5, 2009
Posted by tmintner in MDT 2010, Windows 7.Tags: Disks, MDT, Partitions, Windows 7
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If you have installed Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 through either the Windows media or MDT then you have noticed that a 100 – 300 MB system partition is created that is hidden when you finish in the final operating system (well it is not really hidden, it just doesn’t have a drive letter). The Microsoft Windows team made that decision so that bitlocker could easily be enabled at a later time without having to repartition the disks. However if you don’t ever plan on enabling Bitlocker on your Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 systems you can use MDT with an extra variable in the customsettings.ini and MDT won’t create the extra partition. The variable is:
DoNotCreateExtraPartition = YES
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I have done this and it is still creating the BDEDrive partition
hmm mine is showing up as drive E, I believe because I have two drives, both with windows 7, so the BDE drive of the secondary now shows up. Microsoft why do you do this to me?
what happens to winre when you do this?