Is it possible to safely remove the 100 meg reserve partition

[clivebuckwheat]

After I have built my reference image that I am going to use deployment. Is there a safe way to remove it, so I do not destroy my build?

Thanks for any advice offered,

[cannie]

... so I do not destroy my build?

Hi clivebuckwheat!

You do destroy your build, I´m afraid. The 100 MB partition contains the boot manager and your computer wouldn't work .

HTH

[clivebuckwheat]

So there is no way to remove this partition?

[Tripredacus]

This is incorrect. In the process of building images I go from having the partition, to not, to having it again with no problem.

If you do not have the partition, you deploy OS to the first partition and that's it.

If you have a System reserved (or other) partitions before the OS part, you need to run BCDBOOT C:\WINDOWS after deployment and before reboot.

[clivebuckwheat]

so if I delete the 100 meg system reserve partition and then run the command you suggest the OS should boot?

[Tripredacus]

I've done it on deployment only, not on a live OS. If you deploy the reference image without the SR part you do not need to run the command.

[cluberti]

The question is why? It is actually useful, especially if you have recovery installed/enabled or ever plan to use bitlocker or another whole-drive encryption package.

[NoUserName]

What would you do with extra 100 megs ..

[TheWhip]

The 100 Meg Boot partition is most important to Bitlocker full Driver encryption. If you ever want to use bit locker it's alot better to have this setup then not to.