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I am trying to install Windows 8 on a blank drive. It asks for and creates a small partition of about 350 MiB named System Reserved
instead of installing only in the partition I would like it to be.
Coming from Windows XP I see the change as strange, I'll be needing 2 more primary partitions for other operating systems, plus a data partition. So, this small partition is making it impossible to do the setup I want to accomplish.
I wonder, is there any way to install it only using one partition?
Thank you, it seems to work, it's installing right now. If anyone needs to know to specify the size of the partition you have to add a
size
argument to thecreate partition primary
statement there, for examplecreate partition primary size=51200
for a 50GB partition. – James Russell – 2012-10-28T15:05:47.860Yes, to specify the size of a partition you use the
size
argument. The program is well documented, and there are more options like specifying an ID for the partition. When in doubt use thehelp
command, e.g.help create partition primary
for more info. Anyway, when working with partitions double check what you're doing to prevent unwanted results. – Xandy – 2012-10-28T15:14:57.883Just to add, the same steps that tricked Win7's setup to create only a single partition will work with Win8 as well (delete System/OS partition, extend System Reserved partition to whole disk, format it and install Windows on it). – Karan – 2012-10-29T17:37:11.830