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    Win7 "System Reserved" Disk Space

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jsteng, Aug 1, 2010.

  1. jsteng

    jsteng Notebook Consultant

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    When I re-installed Win7 on M15x using Win7 Disks, I made sure to have wiped out all partitions and alloted all disk space for the new install. That was months ago.

    A few days ago I was using Disk Manager and realized, Windows 7 reserved 100MB of Disk Space as "System Reserved".

    In a week or two, I would be reinstalling Win7 on SSD. Space is limited on SSD and I'd like to squeze out all the available space.

    Though 100MB is not HUGE, I am wondering what this is for and why Win7 did this? instead of plain RO files within main partition.
     
    jsteng, Aug 1, 2010
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    Kocane Notebook Deity

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    Kocane, Aug 1, 2010
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