PC Peripherals Window 7 Help!!!!!

[jatin931]

I have recently installed Window 7 on my rig having 2 hard disk.
1) Hitachi 160 GB for operating System
2) WD Green 1 TB for storage

The problem is while installing 100 Mb of the WD Hard disk has been created for system reserved which I want in Hitachi one so that WD is used for storage purpose only. Is there any solution for this. :huh:

 

[kekerode]

Select Hitachi one as your your first HDD in HDD group in BIOS .. this should do it

If that also doesn't work then before installation disconnect WD HDD and after installation is done .. connect it.

 

[jatin931]

Select Hitachi one as your your first HDD in HDD group in BIOS .. this should do it

If that also doesn't work then before installation disconnect WD HDD and after installation is done .. connect it.

Windows is already installed and I don't want to reinstall it..

 

[kekerode]

^ without reinstallation you can't move that 100MB system reserved partition from WD HDD to Hitachi HDD

 

[jatin931]

Will this partition will effect the windows or Hard disk.. as WD speed is @ 5400 rpm while second one is @ 7200 rpm???

 

[iq6886]

It'll not affect the Hard Disk or the Windows installation in any way... if it's on a 5400 rpm drive it will only affect boot time that too by a second or less.. so you may not even notice it...

It is best you don't touch it at the moment & whenever you re-install windows do as kekerode said, remove the WD hdd...

 

[kekerode]

Will this partition will effect the windows or Hard disk.. as WD speed is @ 5400 rpm while second one is @ 7200 rpm???

there is no problem as far as both HDD are working fine and attached in system .. as iq6886 mentioned .. not much performance problem also because it's just boot partition.

But this makes issue if you remove your WD HDD ... in that case u can't boot into Win7 because your boot partition is on WD HDD ... not on Hitachi HDD where Windows files are installed.

Best way to install Win7 is that manually create only one Windows partition (I mean active partition) before starting installation .. in that case installer won't create that 100 MB partition .. this can be done from Win7 installation DVD itself using diskpart.exe from repair command prompt.