windows reserved partition

[bstiff]

Well on top of alan wake and red dead coming yesterday, all the parts for my new rig came in yesterday. Everything went ok other than the dreaded power on, no fans, no nothing experience. My case came with some crappy 500 watt PSU so I figured that was the cause and replaces it with a 750 watt corsair. I installed that and still nothing. Then I notice a little green power button on the motherboard (?), I push that and after chaning my ram slots voila! everything is up and running.
I have an 80 g ssd for my os and a 640 g caviar for everything else and on the caviar there's a 100 MB partition that's name system reserved. Is there any way to hide it so that it doesn't show up in Win7? Or a way to reassign the drive letter so it doesn't show up in the middle of my drive list?

One other question, I have the upgrade version of win7 and when I tried to do a new install on a blank disk, when I put the key in it gave me an invalid code error. Did they remove the ability to to a total install from the upgrade version? It worked ok when I installed vista and then did a total install of win7.

[nabokovfan87]

Well on top of alan wake and red dead coming yesterday, all the parts for my new rig came in yesterday. Everything went ok other than the dreaded power on, no fans, no nothing experience. My case came with some crappy 500 watt PSU so I figured that was the cause and replaces it with a 750 watt corsair. I installed that and still nothing. Then I notice a little green power button on the motherboard (?), I push that and after chaning my ram slots voila! everything is up and running.
I have an 80 g ssd for my os and a 640 g caviar for everything else and on the caviar there's a 100 MB partition that's name system reserved. Is there any way to hide it so that it doesn't show up in Win7? Or a way to reassign the drive letter so it doesn't show up in the middle of my drive list?

The 100 mb partition IS part of windows and no real way to mess with it.

To view what little you can do (change drive letter or just view the partition) go to ctrl panel, click on administrator tools, and then I believe it is called computer manager. Inside that, on the left click on the drive manager and that should get you to where your looking for.

Doing this from memory, so if it's slightly off, I apologize.

That green light is probably the Power indicator on your motherboard, showing it does have power, and the button you hit is probably to reset the CMOS.

One other question, I have the upgrade version of win7 and when I tried to do a new install on a blank disk, when I put the key in it gave me an invalid code error. Did they remove the ability to to a total install from the upgrade version? It worked ok when I installed vista and then did a total install of win7.

If you have an upgrade version of win7, the only way to get it to install is to install vista and then upgrade to win7. Don't know anything about what a blank disk would involve, but from all I have heard that is the only way to get it to install with the win7 upgrade from vista disk.

[Straximus]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_use_your_windows_7_upgrade_disk_fresh_pc

[nabokovfan87]

Oh registry hacks.... Still don't get what a blank cd has to do with what he/she is asking, but thanks for the education Jeremy, good to know that is out there.

Lol, nvm, I think he/she means a bland hdd, I get it now. Install vista then patch in win7 is easiest way.

[Jackel]

Oh registry hacks.... Still don't get what a blank cd has to do with what he/she is asking, but thanks for the education Jeremy, good to know that is out there.

Lol, nvm, I think he/she means a bland hdd, I get it now. Install vista then patch in win7 is easiest way.

No. it really isn't. It took me all of 3 seconds to change a value in the registry off a straight win 7 upgrade install.

[bstiff]

Oh registry hacks.... Still don't get what a blank cd has to do with what he/she is asking, but thanks for the education Jeremy, good to know that is out there.

Lol, nvm, I think he/she means a bland hdd, I get it now. Install vista then patch in win7 is easiest way.

Sorry I meant blank HDD. It used to be you could do a full install onto a new HDD with an upgrade version of windows if you had a prior version of windows without installing the previous version. It seems you can't do that with win7 though.

[bstiff]

That green light is probably the Power indicator on your motherboard, showing it does have power, and the button you hit is probably to reset the CMOS.

here it is:

http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/picture.php?albumid=70&pictureid=533

Something to do with the overclocking. I had the case power switch out of misconnected so this was the only way to turn it on initially. I always thought it was very bad to touch the motherboard when a PC was plugged in but I guess not.

[RandoM51]

Something to do with the overclocking. I had the case power switch out of misconnected so this was the only way to turn it on initially.

That is cute and it beats bridging two pins momentarily with a screwdriver when you want to turn on the PC during a bench test.