Remove 100MB System Reserved Partition – installing Windows 7

During Setup, if you create a new partition on a clean HDD (no partitions), or delete all partitions and then create a new one – from the Partition screen in Setup, Win7 will create the 100MB boot partition, and you can’t stop it/cancel it. If you want to install Win7 to a clean HDD, but don’t want the boot partition do this:
At the first setup screen (Language, Keyboard, etc.) press SHIFT+F10. This will open a command prompt window. Enter the following diskpart commands to create a partition.
- Diskpart
- List disk
(this command is important. It will show you what disk drives you have. Most likely your hard drive will be will be Disk 0, but you need to check it first.)
- select disk 0
- clean
- create partition primary size=60000
(this creates a partition 60GB in size. If you want to use the whole hard drive, just leave off the size=number)
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=ntfs quick
Type Exit to leave Diskpart. Type Exit to close the command prompt. Now continue with the install. When you get to the partition screen, highlight the partition you just created and click Next. Windows will install to the partition you created and not create the 100MB boot partition. Instead, you will see a C:\Boot folder when the install is finished

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