Windows 10: Strange Partitions after W10 install on new build

I've just built a new PC and installed W10 from a USB after using the W10 creation tool on my old build.

Everything seemed to install fine but I noticed some quirks (like start button and key not doing anything) so I decided to do a reset.

That completed but now I've noticed my NVME 1TB OS drive has it's System Reserved partition in my PC with a drive letter. When I go into Disk Management I notice the drive has a System Reserved partition with letter, the main partition with letter, a 100mb EFI system partition and a 513mb Recovery Partition.

I didn't notice W10 having so many partitions on my last build? And why did I get a System Partition Drive letter?






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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Delete my W10 Partition

Ok i have W10 installed on the HDD but I made a partition of W7 (48GB worth) on it

 

Vista Beta 2 Installed

Well first I defragged the drive, then go into partition magic and select "create a new partition" and make sure it is "after c:"

Then click the rest of the way through the menus, and in the lower left there is a list of pending activites and click "apply" and you will have to restart and before windows boots partition magic does its thing.